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traci
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stereotypes in the media
April 14, 2005 - 07:40 AM
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I think that the media reinforces stereotypes by overemphasizing cases in which the perpetrator is a black male and the victim is a woman. When I try to think of popular cases the names OJ Simpson, Kobe Bryant, R Kelly, and Michael Jackson come to mind. When I try to think of a popular sexual assault case the only one I can think of involving a white man is the Clinton/Monica Lewinski scandal. So aside from if you're the president, if you are a white male you don't get nearly as much attention in the media for committing crimes against women. I think the overwhelming attention on these stories reinforces attitudes against black men.
what do you think?
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Re: stereotypes in the media
June 24, 2005 - 04:21 AM
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I think you are talking about what is happening in United states alone here and it is better to extend the scope of your research to other parts of the world to really ascertain some level of objectivity..my opinion anyway..
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Re: stereotypes in the media
July 27, 2005 - 07:43 AM
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It isnt necessarily about those guys color but because of their standing in society. How many white males in the MEDIA industry have you heard of doing those things?
Those we're popular cases i agree. But it isnt only about their ethnicity but more about their standing in the industry. The media does inforce alot of stereotypes but your using a bad example. The fact your using only AMERICAN ideals is worse the media is a broad industry that extends through the entire globe
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Re: stereotypes in the media
July 28, 2005 - 04:53 AM
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that is so true. you told only what is happening in the USA, not around the globe. take a look around, and you will see that those kind of examples come only from america ... it's a little bit different elsewhere.
baybbluz made a good point here ...
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Re: stereotypes in the media
July 28, 2005 - 05:43 AM
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Originally posted by baybbluz
It isnt necessarily about those guys color but because of their standing in society. How many white males in the MEDIA industry have you heard of doing those things?
Those we're popular cases i agree. But it isnt only about their ethnicity but more about their standing in the industry. The media does inforce alot of stereotypes but your using a bad example. The fact your using only AMERICAN ideals is worse the media is a broad industry that extends through the entire globe
I totally agree and its common knowledge that scandals that are done by people who really don't have a clause in the society doesn't grab the attention of the media coz in one way or another their is the concept of commerce and you have to report at what really sells...its never ethnicity or a race thing but the standing one has in the society.In Africa i will say their is a total bias of the media especially Western media at what they present to the West about the the continent and every channel is tunned and newspapers sold out when its news about some famine outbreak in Africa which is good in creating awareness but bad in the long run coz it somehow stereotypes in the minds of many people that Africa and poverty are one and the same.Thats the kind of stereotyping we should be talking about...
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Re: stereotypes in the media
October 10, 2005 - 07:31 AM
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and i think that there we should touch another side of this problem: stereotyped associations connected with those people who make media - journalists. i mean that unfortunately, journalist has a negative image and is considered as crafty, dishonest person looking everywhere for the information for a material, a person, who doesn't worry what others feel... working as a journalist, i'm sometimes under suspicion and distrust. i don't know, how this opinion was generated. i understand, that, probably, it's a fault of journalists... but i know people who love their job and doesn't deserve such estimation...
so may be it's a problem of journalists in russia and other countries don't have problem like this...
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