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Summary

A Case of "Severe Bias", by Patricia Raybon, is a short article about how the media depicts portrayals black Americans in an inaccurate, biased and in stereotyped way.

Patricia Raybon is a former reporter and feature writer for the Denver Post. She is also an award-winning author whose personal essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, USA Today, and other publications. She won a Christopher Award for her book, My First White Friend (1996, which has appeared in Newsweek magazine in 1989. She is also a radio broadcaster on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. Lastly, she is currently an associate professor at the University of Colorado's School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Boulder.

Rayon’s A Case of "Severe Bias” is an article written to the media, to stop depicting Black Americans in stereotypical ways. The event and timeline of Rayon’s article was in the late eighties when poverty as well as drug, and welfare were high. In her short story she wrote how the media depicted blacks in America as illiterate, prostitutes, drug addicts, and as gang members. The purpose on her writing this article is to open the media, and the public eye to Black Americans as not just being poor, on welfare, or on crack, but in many ways the total opposite.  

Rayon’s short story was about how African Americans in Americans in the media, and on TV in the eighties were depicted with stereotypes.