In a recent look into the newspaper over the past week, I've looked at just how much they cover minorities in the news. I content analyzed just how much the media pays attention to minorities and whites in a negative light. What I found, was actually what I was expecting "sadly."
As you can see in the graph above the most negatively portrayed race in the Florida Times Union was Blacks. Having more than half of all negative portrayals in the newspaper. Their where 15 people portrayed negatively in the Florida Times Union I analyzed and 8 were black 5 were of other races and 2 were white. This graph summarizes the stereotype of African Americans in the media, that we are a violent race and that you should fear us. That stereotype is very untrue but you can't tell from the way the media portrays it.
I guess the media feels that minorities are the only ones who commit crime, even though studies have shown otherwise. The media I guess has a bias against minorities of making it seem like they commit they majority of crimes, and want them feared by society. My guess is to keep the balance of power in this country in their favor.
The media could actually do its job and tell the truth for once about who commits the most crimes in the U.S. Seriously though, I doubt that's going to happen. We'll just have to keep researching it ourselves just like we've been doing.
This is why I stay away from media news even though somehow it still shows up through word-of-mouth or whatever.
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