American Media
Essays

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin White Masks. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York:

Events occur and become news, news circulate all around the globe. In early times it was almost impossible to convey these happening with in short period of time but with the advent of time technology grew exponentially and gave a fast source of communication called "media". Media has played a very important role throughout. Any event occurring in one side of the globe gets to the other side within a span of minutes. They cover events such as politics, sports, entertainment etc and telecast it to the other regions. Every event that had occurred in the past has been covered by the regions local and international media. the point lies in the contradicting news telecasted by the media i.e. one event coverage contradicting to the same event covered by another channel. The process of broadcasting consist of many events such as coverage, filtration, etc. a channel covers a footage that is happening all around and then add/subtract material to/from it and present it to the higher authorities for broadcasting. This manipulation of news creates a deep impact on people's mind and result in the reaction to it accordingly. The motive behind this manipulation process could be financial aspect, political grounds etc.

This order examines a particular image in order to decipher the messages regarding a need for a certain standard of beauty. The image is a 2012 cover of Teen Vogue, where there is a clear message to show women how imperfect they are, and ow they need to strive at all costs to find that more ideal image. Thinness and being skinny is associated with glamor and fashion.