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Assignment:
We often get our information about current events by reading items online or watching/listening to the news, or by reading the news on line. The purpose of this essay is to look at how our media environment can shape our attitudes. This essay will help us to look at this question.
Here is the assignment:
Watch and take notes of any one news source for one week, either on television or on line. You can choose from CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Bloomberg, or CBS, NBC, ABC, PIX11, The Washington Post, New York Times, NJ.com, NPR, a news-oriented podcast, or any other source but please check with me if you choose one not listed here.
The purpose of this essay is to look for and describe attitudes about race and class that may be seen in real time, in everyday context. Here is the topic question:
What are the main ways in which people of different race, gender and class are depicted on the news?
Find at least three news stories that illustrate what you see about race, gender and class divisions, and summarize these stories. Study the stories in terms of the course themes you see, and organize your essay to address each of the following questions:
1. Which news source did you choose? Who is giving the news? What are the race/genders of the news anchors or hosts?
2. How are people of different races people presented in the stories you chose to describe? Which races got the most news coverage? What kinds of news did you see about each?
3. Can you tell the class of the people in your selected news stories? How? What clues are there with which you can tell?
4. Was gender mentioned in your stories? Which gender got the most news coverage? What kinds of news stories were about women, and what kinds of stories were about men?
5. Conclude with your opinion of what you have seen during the week. Did you see different patterns? What were they? Did anything surprise you about what you observed? What did you notice?
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