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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Media
I honestly was shocked after reading this. I never knew that half of these things were not true. I remember hearing all of these things on the news or at school growing up and never thinking twice about it. I guess that the media does a good job of blowing these things out of proportion. I can believe that they would though because our society has always needed some group to blame things on and I guess teenagers fit the bill. I mean if you think about it, they aren't going to do anything about the stereotype put on them, because most of them probably think that it is true. I know that when I was in middle school and high school I was told most of these things, like the high rate of suicide, the transmittal of sexual deceases, the use of drugs, the pregnancy, etc. and I believed that it was all true. I mean if you think about it they have found the perfect group to target as well as make money off of. It actually is quite sick if you really think about it that they are utilizing a group of impressionable kids into thinking these things about themselves.
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I definitely agree with you on that but and it seems like the media's targets are getting younger and younger. I think its time for us as readers to investigate everything that we see and hear. I know that I just cannot listen to CNN or Fox news passively and take everything that they say as truth. Every station has its biases and these people are really disgusting to skew the numbers just so that their ratings sky rocket. I know recently that the journal sentinel posted in the newspaper about MPS dissolving and I thought "can the school board even do that? Do they have that authority?" And of course turns out that they don't but it got people talking about plans of shutting down MPS and confirming people's stereotypes about it. I'm just as shocked as you are but now we are empowered as a public to point out the inconsistencies of the media and present to our students. This would be a great investigative lesson that they could do in an English classroom!
Like you, I am angered at what I read in Chapters 7 and 8. It always seems like the news is there to scare the average american citizen about a certain group. During World war II, americans believed that every person of Japanese decent was a spy because the government and media told americans this was the case. It's important for our students to be aware of how kids in their age group are being portrayed. I really believe that the media wants to scare people and that teenagers are the next target. Since they aren't adults yet but not children, they're easy targets for the media to attack.
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