Everyone knows that September 11, 2001 was a horrible day in America. After those attacks we were a distort country, looking for answers. Did TV coverage of the events at hand help with our coping or did they only feed the flames of hatred against people with Arabic decent. News coverage seemed to cover every horrible aspect of the event and every other event that could be related for months, could this have brain washed us in to racist zombies? Television should have a responsibility to the public for fair reporting on racial issues.
Racism has had a very long history of torment and discrimination. Even though we see ourselves as a united nation we continue to fight with racial issues every day. Television is extremely influencing in this day an age, because of it ability to reach viewers almost everywhere. New coverage focuses on the bad sides of things, because it brings in more viewers. We as a
So where does televisions role of an information source end and a discriminating medium begin? Television must incorporate the same statistical mix of people into its shows and news as in the real world before it can be a non-bias medium. People of color currently represent only 13 per cent of prime time programming and five per cent of children's programming, even though it's estimated those groups will make up their majority of the U.S. population by the year 2000 (Wall Street Journal, April 1998).
This is not only a racial attitude toward Arabic decent but too many other minorities on TV. Blacks on TV are very misrepresented, only about 22% of television contains black actors with about 13% of Hispanics and the rest were whites. A study by the University of Michigan found that nearly 73 percent more African Americans and about 38 percent more Latinos than whites were portrayed as criminals. Also, Blacks were about 2.5
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