Media Representation In America

In modern day United States, the media is a huge pool of information that is always apparent. Almost every household in America has a television; hundreds of channels on the television are mainly news, local or national such as Good morning Colorado, Good morning America, and World News Tonight, even talk shows such as Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon are fueled by the media.

The media has played a significant role in American culture. It has influenced our political, social, and economic beliefs for centuries as well as our democratic values. The objective of the media is to provide audiences with fast and reliable news while informing citizens with the latest news coverage. The majority

Media includes broadcasting mediums such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet. The Business Dictionary defines media as, “communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated” (“Media.”). With the right instruments, media has had a very sizable impact on American society and culture. Media has grown immensely popular and has remarkably gained influence that it’s altered the way we judge each other. American culture has exposed young children to many varieties of media; they watch TV more than once a day, some have smartphones to search the web, a few are even on Facebook; media’s become a vast component of American culture. Unfortunately, media exposes youngsters to exaggerated stereotypes, which subconsciously changes the way they perceive their peers. The media’s inaccurate illustrations of racial and gender stereotypes have done a very poor job in creating gender and race equality; they constructed the building blocks that produce repudiate feelings, which leads to discrimination. This underlying violence is a systemic violence, so as victims, we are incapable of comprehending the detrimental repercussions. American racism has evolved from this hidden violence; the media initiates the production of negative observations regarding different races through wrong representations of stereotypes..

In his time there he painted three artworks and one statement on the walls. Gaza Kitten illustrates a kitten wearing a bright bow, finding a ball of building wreckage to play with. At first glance the kitten appears happy, but when you look closely at her facial features, the kitten expresses unhappiness, like she is missing joy in her life. The kitten represents the feelings of the children living in Gaza. They might find something to play with but they are missing joy in their lives. Whilst in Gaza, Banksy was asked what his artwork meant, to which he replied “I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website —but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.” (Banksy, 2015). Banksy achieves this by using the technique of juxtaposed imagery to create a contrasting effect between the kitten and the ruins of Gaza to emphasise the destruction, this causes an increase in power and impact to the artwork. He came to Gaza to raise awareness and get people’s attention on the issue at hand but people can’t see past a picture of a kitten. This artwork holds strong value and importance in how we as people view war and destruction. The message attached to the artwork is confronting and smacks us in the face with the hard truth, even if we don’t want to hear it. (Landsbaum, C,

Imagine a young boy in the streets of Tehran staring straight at a blank light grey cement wall in the middle of the night with the moon and a couple of lamp posts as lighting. Spray can in hand, he points it eye level and presses his skinny brown fingers down on the cap, shooting red paint onto the wall. Three hours later, the young boy is in the same position as when he started, except the wall is no longer blank. Written on the wall, using sharp calligraphy, is a bold statement promoting democracy in Iran. This form of art expression is not the only controversy to come about in the modern Middle East. The culturally rich region has become more and more intricate as time goes on and has resulted in numerous complexities that effect the people

While reading “A Little Piece of Ground”, I found myself almost immediately agreeing with and being on the Palestinians’ side because of the perspective of the book. It was only until I heard an interview talking about this perspective that I started opposing the book and thinking about other perspectives. “It is, at the least, dishonest to portray a political conflict in totally unpolitical terms, particularly when it's written for kids who can't be assumed to know what the political context is” (National Public Radio, 2018). As mentioned earlier, because the book targets readers aged ~12-14, the book entices most of its audience to one perspective without the audience even knowing. After finding this out, I felt tricked and it made me wonder if some of the events in the book were even similar to what happens in real life. However, it is lucky that this was brought to my attention, as if it were not, I would still believe that the Israelis were uncaring, killing

For centuries, historians have denied the accomplishment of African Civilization. To this day the day, the misconception planted racist historians remain in the media. American media often displays Africa as a place of extreme poverty and lack of culture. In contrary however, African people had many advances before the arrival of the Europeans. The advances of the African Kingdoms are shown through their successful trade routes, ordered government, wealth, Education system, individual morals and art.

American society is presented information over a wide range of events that we encounter in life throughout the history of the United States on account of media. Media presents ongoing information within the boundaries of the United States in addition to foreign affairs believed to be significant to the American public. The media has a massive influence and impact on the American society covering certain events that are taking place all over the world. However, sometimes media only covers one side of the story to create interest in the American public while behind the scenes generating themselves as a significant role in day-to-day life within this country. Many events broadcasted beyond the boarders of the United States, unfortunately, has

He debates the issue of swayed media attention (focusing on Israel) when it comes to Israeli-Palestinian outbreaks and wars, because of two main reasons. One, the fact that Israel is a “democracy” making journalist reporting easier, and two, the fact that the victims involved are Jews. Whether people are for or against them, attention is typically focused on Jewish victims in Israel. An example the author gave was the Iraq-Iran war, which occurred for eight years and caused more death and demolition than all Arab-Israeli wars put together, and received far less attention. I truly agree with that. The many deaths and troubles that Arab and non-Arab nations face are constantly ignored or

Media outlets consistently perceive the Jewish people as the victims of brutality and violence despite them supposedly attempting to create a peaceful two-state solution. With some investigation, it quickly becomes obvious that this simply isn’t the case. Permit regimes and powerful Israeli military units have trapped the Palestinians in hostile territories. The expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land makes a mockery of the US commitment to self-determination in several Israeli cities. However, lobbyist organizations such as AIPAC tell the American public a far different

Society’s prenotions and judgments of individual nationalities are ever changing. Ask an Israeli and a Palestinian about their thoughts of one another and the distinctions may be alarming. In recent times, when an Israeli hears the word “Palestinian” many negative connotations may come flooding to mind. The word “Palestinian” often evokes strong images; images such as stone throwers, rebels, terrorists, and above all, a menace to Israel. Ask a Palestinian about an Israeli, and the thoughts may be of militant brutality, people oppressors, and ultimately land stealers. But where do these negative paintings come from? And who is the artist? Do connotations held by the majority constitute absolute truth, or any truth for that matter? The

The item that I chose for my critical analysis is a drawing from “A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and The Fight against Censorship”. The book is a collection of drawings created by Gazan children that was supposed to be showcased at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California until it was censored. The artwork was created by children who were living in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, which lasted from December 2008 to January 2009. It was a 3 week armed conflict between Hamas and Israel which ended with a ceasefire. Israel claims that it wanted to stop illegal weapon smuggling into Gaza and stop militants from sending more rocket fire into Israel. The conflict raged for 3 weeks,

Israeli occupation controls all aspects of my life as a Palestinian. I live in a country that is occupied by the most battle trained armed forces in the world. I have no power over my own daily life. I always live in a state of fear. The fear of losing people I love or even losing myself. This major problem has been faced by Palestinians for more than 67 years. As a young Palestinian female who has the opportunity to study aboard, It’s a must that I try to convey the truth and let people know that while all the unjust and outrageous things that happen to us, we still stand in front of the occupation with rocks in one hand and education in the other.

Since the mid twentieth-century, Palestine has shrunk into a tiny “state” of its own. The land that the Palestinians used to consume is no longer their land. After spending almost half of a year in Palestine (over a few summers), I have experienced the hardships and heartbreak that the Palestinians face each day. Palestinians are not allowed to roam freely, Palestinians are harassed by the Israel Defense Force, and the ownership of Jerusalem is one of the many ongoing battles that the Palestinians face.

The constant projection from Hollywood of ‘Never innocent Palestinians’ have transformed a community of positive views towards Palestinians to the concrete message that they are ‘terrorists’ , ‘killers’ and a threat towards society. This stereotype has been evident in countless films initially from the year 1960s till even the present day. The Government of the United States showed their support for the Jew Faith and Israelis by humanizing them, yet leaving the conflict purely sourced from Palestinians as terrorist and trouble makers. The primary base of demonizing Palestinians was exhorted in the 1960 - Exodus. In this film, Palestinians were either seen as ‘no ones' or people who were perpetrators of terrible acts linking with the Nazi’s. In addition to this display of Palestinians, Cast a Giant Shadow- 1966 projected the violence from Palestinians overpowering humanized Israelis. The question is ‘why cannot we humanize palestinians the same way we humanize Israelis?’ The answer is that we can, but Hollywood constantly choose to utilize Palestinians as an evil civilization. Death before Honor created later in 1987 is a film in which Palestinians are seen as harm towards Americans. This behavior is shown through the burning of the American flag and dispatching of a suicide bomber. As a result of this global view, millions of Palestinians have been affected into being made refugees and living in unthinkable poverty. The inconsiderate stereotype of Palestinians has become the norm in society, both causing a skewed view of them as perpetrators of horrific