Race and Media
Larson, Stephanie Greco. (2006). Media & Minorities: The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Print.
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees, among other rights, that Americans will have the right to free speech. It is based on the premise of this right that there is also a free press in the U.S., and solidifies the fact that they are able to report without any fear of repercussion from an oppressive government. Unfortunately, this does not guarantee that everything that the media does will be unbiased. Many cases can be put forward that demonstrate this, but in the book Media & Minorities: The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment Stephanie Greco Larson looks at how the free media has treated racial diversity in the United States.
The basic premise of the book is that both the news and entertainment media have been biased for the entire history of the U.S. In the conclusion to the book, she makes the three points that the media's "representation of race serves to protect the racial hierarchy in America…[that] there is more similarity than difference in the ways that the media represents the four racial-minority groups…[and that] there are similarities between how racial minorities are represented in news and entertainment" (268). This thesis is well-supported by research documentation and practical example, but it is difficult to say that the author proves her point. As a matter of fact, a truly unbiased reader of this biased writer would say that she does not prove her contention.
From the very beginnings of the work, the author has a very strict idea of what is and is not bias and racial inequality. She does cite research to back her statements, but all of the evidence she gives is antiquated. There is a small acknowledgement in the conclusion in which she agrees that she has used old examples, but she also tries to explain this away.
The structure of the book shows the completeness with which studied the topic and the effort she made to make a solid argument, and she also looks at all phases of media, but generalizes...
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