community too”, which further promotes Malcolm X’s heroism because it represents him as wanting the best for all people, even non-blacks. This is the quality of a hero. The source is useful because it shows how a big portion of the black community viewed Malcolm X and his connections with the CRM and BP, but it is also less reliable because it is very biased in favour of black resistance. The article is especially useful because it is a primary source, from the actual time of the events in its content. (SOURCE D)
The strength and effects of mass media are expressed perfectly in Denis McQuail’s article “The Influence and Effects of Mass Media.” McQuail does not really focus on the educational spectrum of mass media like Lunsford. Instead he tries to provide useful information about how mass media effects society as a whole and how there can be power gained from ownership of mass media. Instead of just thinking of mass media as a website that teenagers get on to post what they are eating for lunch or what they had to do that day, McQuail looks deeper and writes about how mass media can lead to political and economic power. One example from his article is when he writes about how mass media “can attract and direct attention to problems, solutions or people” and can also be useful in the forms of “persuasion and mobilization.”
I found the reading Martin Gilens interesting, especially when it got to the media coverage of poor African Americans around page 110. I found it interesting how Gilens mentioned during the early 1960s, the media coverage appeared more neutral in tone on welfare policies and the images were dominated by whites. This was interesting in comparison to today’s media because there are several media sources on both sides of the political spectrum that are extremely biased and completely spell out their opinion on the government should do on certain policy issues or national security. Considering the 1960s, there were limited options for everything, limited places to shop, limited channels on television, especially limited new sources, for those news
Representation within media is a powerful thing and the viewpoint often differs with context, such as the gender of the storytellers and the time period in which a piece was written and/or published. William Moulton Marston, the mind behind iconic female superhero Wonder Woman (DC Comics), has once described a need for a new type of woman in comics. He found there was a need for one that defied the weaknesses we usually prescribe to females in general, stating that the female archetype lacks the force, strength, and power needed to make girls want to identify with female characters (American Scholar, 1943). Even then, his heroine could be described as modest and peace-loving, two characteristics he himself described as belonging to the aforementioned weaknesses.
Being published in 2007, this work greatly accentuated the problem of a society where the media dictated exactly what and how information would be transmitted to society. However, in the modern technological era, the media’s content is less important to society due to our ability to select, and as a result the argument presented by the author, along with most of his concerns, is
Despite the Hispanic princess conservancy, it true that the media has everything to do with the problem, since it frustrating knowing that each “ethnic” group must wait their turn to have some sort of representation on Television but in a positive way. According to Raul A. Reyes a CNN news writer, Latinos get nothing but negative attention “A 2012 study by the National Hispanic Media Coalition found that TV shows and films often contributed to the public 's negative perception of Latinos. In fact, the Coalition found that the top three ways that non-Latinos viewed Latinos in the media were as criminals, gardeners and maids.” Meaning that instead of providing positive inspiring views about Latinos the media tends to do the opposite. In other
The sentencing disparity for drug use by race is disproportionate for African Americans because of The War on Drugs. Matthew Lassiter (2015) explains, “In 1951, Harry Anslinger, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, collaborated with senate of criminal investigations to target black ‘dope peddlers’ who were luring pretty white blondes into drug addiction”(2015:128). According to Lassiter (2015), Anslinger believed that peddlers, who destroyed teenagers’ lives, required the most sever punishment (2015:129). Using this rhetoric, presidents like Nixon and Reagan would shape the way drug laws are enforced.
During the 20th century, African American starting leaving the south. They left behind the racial segregation, discrimination, and violence in search of greater economic opportunity. This was the forming of the “Great Migration” of 1.5 million African Americans that happened between 1910 and 1945. Also another 6.5 million moved north and west between 1945 and 1970. Since the 1960’s, many black urban immigrants have achieved success where as some have been left behind.
Jasmine Ferrell 6th 06/10/16 Composition 10 Being A Black Female In America “ It is utterly exhausting being a Black in America- physically,mentally,and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color”, quoted by Marian Wright Edelman. Many women of different minority groups are authorized because of their race and the fact that they’re a woman, but it seems as if through history and present day Black women have it harder than the rest.
People in America are to easily persuaded to think what other people want them to think. The media is a big part of Americans being swayed to think something. I also feel the media intentionally changes the panics opinion. I think so many things could be done to help the public think for themselves.
If you turn on the news or look at any popular TV show, you may see references to the image of African Americans in the U.S. today, but how is this different from how they were portrayed years ago? Because TV and other media are a constant presence in American’s lives, they have had a significant impact on the way people thought and still think about important social issues, especially race, ultimately resulting in the differing viewpoints of blacks from nineteen forty to now. The Civil Rights movement began in nineteen fifty five with “Rosa Parks, whose refusal to sit in the back of a bus sparked a chain of Civil Rights protests that rocked the South and the nation.” So from the nineteen forties to the nineteen seventies, this time period witnessed how the media handled not only the Civil Rights movement and the image of African Americans
When a majority of today's society envisions a young African American, they don't often associate such a person with the terms "successful", "prosperous" or even just "well off". Rather, black people have become a group that is mocked. The African diaspora are often referred to as "thugs", "uneducated" and "lazy". According to a 2015 News Week study, out of the 41% of those that choose higher education, black males make up 33.9% of that pool. Which is significantly higher than the 18% they previously held in 1988.
In the times before the 21st century, African American citizens were not treated as equal as other citizens in the United States. During the 1960’s, a man, by the name of Martin Luther King Junior, rose up against the racist oppression to bring equality to all. On August 28, 1963, Martin gave a speech in which he proclaimed his dreams of a new, free America.
Some towns and cities do not have neither their own local paper nor television stations. Residents in those areas are forced to watch the national news unless there is a big enough story in those areas like a natural disaster in which case the national media will focus its attention in those areas at least for the duration of the natural disaster. Increase media use increases the likelihood that the person will in fact vote. A person who reads the newspaper is more likely to vote than the person who does not read the newspaper. People in the United States use television to watch the news more often according to ratings.
A media source which ignores or censors important issues and events severely damages freedom of information. Many modern tabloids, twenty four hour news channels and other mainstream media sources have increasingly been criticized for not conforming to general standards of journalistic integrity. In nations described as authoritarian by most international think-tanks and NGOs media ownership is generally something very close to the complete state control over information in direct or indirect ways. Undesirable consequences which occur due to media imperialism are: • Commercially driven ultra-powerful mass market media is primarily loyal to sponsors i.e. advertisers and government rather than to the public interest.
