Diana Kendall writes about how media and class framing can control the way the average person thinks about various subjects. Media is run by, for the most part, rich elitists that try to drive in to us a cosumerism type attitude.
We think that because all the celebrities make and spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on things they dont need, then we should spend a little bit too.
Kendall speaks about how people who watch tv alot are much more likely to be in huge amounts of debt. There were alot of different things discussed and Im not sure how I felt about it all. I think that a civic journalist is the way to go be cause they would get the most accurate and fair stories. they listen to the people and ask open ended questions while the rich media giants ask loaded questions that require a yes/no or agree/disagree answer. weather you agree or not that the media is biased or that we love the rich and famous a little too much , we need to change things about how the lower classes are often portrayed in movies, magazines, reality show, documentaries, and newspapers.
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I also think that the ways the rich and the lower class are portrayed in the media needs to be changed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with wyatt. There could be a good following if the middle class was actually portrayed in a light that was remotely accurate.
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