While the media does not contribute to poverty, it is undoubtedly a significant aspect in modern day society that influences how people think about poverty. The media affects society through the facts it chooses to reinforce. It is really important whether the media choose to refer certain things and not. It creates images about race and poverty, and plays an important role in shaping the way we understand race and poverty. It definitely frames the ideology of our mainstream social issues. It stereotypes poor people and minorities as uneducated, lazy, lack of good family values, not intelligent, unmotivated, etc.. We grow up with these viewpoints so that it became impossible to change overtime.
