Prime Time television news enforce the fact that we do not live in a post racial society. When we watch the news all it brings up is crime. It is usually about shootings, murders, car accidents, and there is never good news when the news is on. Whenever we see the news it usually brings up racial minorities as the problems and they are inflicting harm on Whites. Even in the Dixon article it is clear that African Americans are overrepresented. If we live in a post racial society the news would not target African Americans or other ethnic groups. Very rarely do we hear about Whites as the perpetrators. That is a problems because crime is everywhere and it does not matter a person's race everyone is a perpetrator or a victim. People think that race no longer exists but the news separate race and define a person based on the color of their skin and not how they are as a person. When we hear about a crime the person's race is the first thing we hear about.
When the news blame African Americans and Latinos it can enforces racial stereotypes. Which can enforce our schemas of what our idea of what a criminal looks like or acts. The news enforcing this in our head and because of that it is hard for us to change our perceptions.
Do you think that the news will ever change the way they tell stories?
Do you think the news will stop using race as a way to define the perpetrator?
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