The role of the media in racial stereotypes & crime

This is an interesting perspective of how the media presents minorities. To see the entire article click on the link below.

No one wants to be called a racist. When you ask people why they think African-Americans are on a crime spree, Latinos are flooding the country with drugs, or Asian-Americans are banding together to put "real Americans"--read whites--out of business, they will immediately tell you they saw it on the local news or read it in a newspaper.

So, what's the answer? The more than 5,000 minority journalists at a recent Unity conference in Atlanta said the solution is to increase racial and ethnic minorities in news management ranks so that those who report, edit, and decide what goes on the media are proportionately representative of the public at large.

The number of minorities in the media have increased from four percent to more than 10% in recent years, but the Unity participants believe that rate isn't fast enough. Certainly, they are right. It is unconscionable that the men and few women who manage the media continue to do so without the benefit of enough input from racial and ethnic minorities to make a difference.



http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2594_v123/ai_15897250/