Media Violence

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Social Issues

 

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Andrew W

 

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December 24, 2014

 

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University

 

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For years now African Americans have been greatly overrepresented in television news stories. In fact between 1988 and 1992, they accounted for 65.2% of the population living in poverty despite constituting for only 29% of the individuals actually living in scarcity. Most recently however, African Americans have been greatly overemphasized in news stories regarding illicit drug use, despite being vastly outnumbered by the percentage white drugs users present in society...
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By overemphasizing the extent of drug use present amongst African American communities the media “distorts issues of race by under-representing white perpetrators” (Dorfman and Woodruff, 1998). Currently the images displayed in the mass media do not reflect the lifestyles of many African Americans living and surviving in society...
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