Comments on News Media

I agreed with this presentation that the way Blacks are portrayed is deleterious. News outlets in this country are playing into racist stereotypes and disregarding the truth because it gets them viewers. However, this is not the case for all news outlets everywhere. In other place like Europe, Blacks are actually respected and issues of racism are not based on the color of skin. Instead, racism is based on things like employment and nationalism. Yet and still, we need to understand the fall of media in general in order to understand why it is that the news in this country is always bashing our kind.

In recent years, new outlets have scaled down their employees. When I last checked, CNN had stopped covering over twenty countries. Why would CNN stop covering areas that they have for decades? They are streamlining themselves and that is a trend seen in many other news outlets. It all comes down to what is most popular at the time as popularity sells and the news is a business like anything else. The effect of all this is that what we hear in the news is slanted and biased towards what people are most interested in hearing as the truth is not something we generally find interesting. Also, it is something we would not know about because no one is covering it here. For a more accurate depiction of the world and news we have to look outside this country to things like the BBC which is renowned world over for its media coverage. Sadly, in this country what is seen on television and heard on the radio is what people tend to believe. We are a very insular nation despite our efforts in other countries. We care about ourselves and will easily believe the media while disregarding the idea that good journalism is based on fact, not opinion. There will continue to be racist attacks on Blacks as well as any other race that makes them money until we demand that they show us truth instead of comedy.