Media and Race Precis

In her article "Media and Race" (2009) Ezra Klein of CBS asserts that race is still an issue within each part of American media.  She goes on to express her feelings on how our nations history with race is cleaned up and turned into classic American tales of people overcoming oppression because of brave leaders from their community.  Klein says all of this in order to state the obvious, that race is still an issue today but it is one that does not want to me touched by anyone because of our past.

Topic Freewrite

While in the process of doing research on my topic I made the mistake of writing a precis on a book that is about my topic instead of a scholarly article.  This book written by Beulah Ainley in 1998 was called "Black Journalists, White Media".  Now obviously I did not sit down and read the entire book but I was able to read a small portion of it which I believe addressed the purpose of the book.  This book discusses the issue of  race in a media prodominately run by whites and  how the race of a journalist can effect the stories they choose to investigate or write about.  Ainley even gives personal occassions on the subject, "Of the 80 whom I informed I was black only 45 had the courtesy to reply.  Some of those who did not reply went on advertising their vacancies for weeks afterward."

Race in Media precis

In this novel, "Black Journalist, White Media (1998)" author Beulah Ainley writes on just that, the amount of black journalist in the media and why.  The author uses hard evidence, facts and even personal experience in order to bring out the issue of race in the media which is the reason some stories are never brought to light.

Outline

Introduction:  In today's society influences are seen all around us, from famous people and the cars they buy all the way down to the gear a professional athelete wears to help his or her performance.  In between the companies who make these products and the people they want to buy them is one thing, the media.  In American today we are slowly watching the media take over generation after generation with the new technology and advances.


Definition: When I speak about media I am referring to the four main groups of media; Television, Radio, Literature, and the Internet.  Within these four forms of media are numerous sub-groups that specify in just about any thing the media can and will provide for you for such as news reports, blogs and social networks, national public radio, and the worst of all reality television. 

Working thesis #2

Some of the problems the American society is facing with the latest generations of children can be attributed to the information consumed from the American Media.


I feel this working thesis is a good one to start with because it states what I will be talking about, and is broad enough to allow my paper to reach a various amount of topics.

The American Media and It's Effects

     The problem with American media is that the majority of it has no intellectual value and is literally dumbing down our society.  The group of people who are effected most are the younger generation of American who live in the media.  Parents who do not monitor or regulate what their children are watching can be considered to be one of the problems behind this issue.  Many people have tried to suggest things that parents should do to keep their children from watching media that is not suitable for their age such as parental control on televisions. Because of the freedoms we have in America people are not forced to do this so most don't.  In the future if the  American media does not improve its overall content out nation will continue to fall behind other contries as far as intellect goes.

A Hard Days Working Thesis

Among the great feats of our ancient ancestors how many may have been influenced by something else, rather than created by the mind of man?



Though this statement is not very broad I feel that it asks a question that I will be able to accurately answer and elaborate on throughout my paper.