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White privilege and the Media.
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Shantal Aleman White privilege and the Media.
White privilege and its influence in the media is not a big topic thats is widely discussed in the wikipedia article and is rather underrepresented. The idea of how white privilege and the media and is often described as white supremacy, has risen a lots of awareness in the last couple of years, especially in News stories. People of color have realized that only good things in the media comes out if you are white and if you are of color only alleged crimes appear to make things national. In Maisha Z. Johnson article “ 8 ways The Media Uses Upholds White Privilege and Demonizes people of color,’’ She argued that how the media only brings to light the accomplishments and the crimes that are done by people of color. Johnson said, “the media chooses which parts of our lives to show – and their choices often humanize white people while vilifying people of color.”
She is making the point of how color people get the global light if they have lived up to their “own expectations” and white people always get noticed for their achievements or if they have committed a crime they use other outlets to make them appear less harmful. She used the example of the two mass shootings that were labeled as “ Brilliant loner” As well as, headlines explaining the mass shootings of Adam lanza and James holmes as smart, nice yet quiet men. She argued how they hey “Choose Charming Photos of White Victims – And ‘Incriminating’ Photos of Victims of Color” Which, she assumed that it has an influence on how we view people. The media chooses pictures that can make us look innocent or pictures that can digify people's actions. According to Nick Wang from Huffington Post, “news reports often use headline claims from police or other officials that appear unsympathetic or dismissive of black victims. Other times, the headlines seem to suggest that black victims are to blame for their own deaths, engaging in what critics sometimes allege is a form of character assassination. When contrasted with media portrayal of white suspects and accused murderers, the differences are more striking. News outlets often choose to run headlines that exhibit an air of disbelief at an alleged white killer’s supposed actions.”
Media has printed an image that is very much like a pattern, they chose stereotypes of people of color to portray to us what we think is normal for certain color people crimes to be labeled as the norm. The Opportunity Agenda, ran a study in 2011 called “Media Representations & Impact on the Lives of Black Men and Boys,” it portrayed the negative life expectations among black men. Which are reinforced through media that shapes people's views. Opportunity Agenda stated the casual topics media representation of black males. “In turn, media consumption negatively affects the public’s understandings and attitudes related to black males (sometimes including the understandings and attitudes of black males themselves).”
The missing white girl is also seems to be superior because of the amount of media coverage it gets when it involves a young, charming, skinny, upper class white girl versus a girl of color. According to the National Missing and Unidentified Person System, In the United states of America there is 100,000 missing people cases in every moment. Not all of them make global headlines, but special ones do and it's only if you fit the certain quota. Most of those stories only really matter if you are a charming white girl. In the article “The Missing White Woman Syndrome” by Robin L. Barton explained the reality of the cases of disappearances white women are involved in get headlines plastered globally. Barton stated in his article, “ race is the biggest factor in determining how much interest journalists seem to show in a missing persons case. He explained that the only reason why journalist plaster these missing white girls is because they are the stories that make the most money and is what the people want. We hardly hear many cases of girls of color being talked about on the news or on headlines that have gone missing .
In white Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy addressed the daily 50 white privileges she encounters and one of those was “I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented” She applies that she can see her race represented widely because usually white males and females are mainly in default with the media. They are higher stereotypes for white people versus people of color on the media whether it's from news outlets to even to movies. There is alway white males as leading roles in plenty of movies and a lot of the media is owned white white older men. Print ads you tend to see white people well represented and hardly see other races on print ads.
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editYour sandbox is here: User:Shantalaleman/sandbox. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)