“It is and it isn’t: Stereotypes, Advertising and Narrative” Precis

In the article “It is and it isn’t: Stereotypes, Advertising and Narrative” David Wall asserts that stereotypes, advertising and narrative are very powerful and that they are based of truths but does not make them truthful. Wall talks about how in politics images are made to humiliate a person or people in a campaign or for something they said; how advertising and television use stereotypes, sex, and race; how stereotypes have some truth and that they have come from history; and how an advertisement can be read one way or another depending on the viewer. The author’s purpose is to explain that stereotypes affect the media in order to show the power of the media and the stere0types or race and sex. The audience are people in the media or someone wanting to know a little about stereotypes in the media.

WALL, DAVID. "It Is And It Isn't: Stereotypes, Advertising And Narrative." Journal Of Popular Culture 41.6 (2008): 1033-1050. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Apr. 2013.

“Who Can Say What?” Precis

In the article “Who Can Say What?” by Betsy Rubiner et. al they argue only certain people can say certain things at certain times and that there is a fine line of what can be said and what can’t. The authors’ start with events one a radio show and use other celebrities and talk show host and what their racist comments that have gotten them into trouble and how in some cases it is okay to use those terms or sayings. The purpose is to show that what is said in the media can be seen as racist but at other times it may not be but the line for what is appropriate to be said and what cannot be said is fine and can be easily crossed but no one really knows where this line is. The audience for this article are people wanting to be in the media and seeing how a comment can get you into trouble and effect a career in the media.

Rubiner, Betsy, et al. "Who Can Say What? (Cover Story)." Time 169.17 (2007): 32-38. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Apr. 2013.

"Speaking For Ourselves" Precis

Makani Themba-Nixon and Nan Rubin article, “Speaking For Ourselves”, claim that people of color, women, poor and the youth are misrepresented in the media or hardly represented implying that only the negative things are shown off in the media. The authors’ talks about how African Americans in Mississippi took a stand to get better coverage, the youth in the Bay Area demanded better coverage instead of all the negative press, how other places people have demanded better coverage and back to Mississippi where it all started getting better coverage. The authors’ purpose is to inform the reader of how only the negative is represented and "… if the story is positive, they will focus on an individual. If it's negative, they will focus on the organization. It's a clear media bias that it's OK for an individual to have power but not OK for our communities to have organizations with power". This audience is for people of color, women, poor the young, people in the media or anyone being misrepresented by the media so that this issue can be stopped.

                                                                                                

Themba-Nixon, Makani, and Nan Rubin. "Speaking For Ourselves." Nation 277.16 (2003): 17-19. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Apr. 2013.

Right- Wing Racism: Past, Present-And Future” Precis

In Eric Alterman’s article “Right- Wing Racism: Past, Present-And Future” suggest that there is racism in the media and politics and that there always will be racism. Alterman talks about what some people in the media have said pertaining to race, how racism coasted Obama votes in the 2008 and 2012 presidential election, how the past of racism and what was social accepted but is now not is effecting people and what they do know, and he talks about how “racism remains a consistent if rarely acknowledged fact of modern American political life.” The author brings up these points of racism and how the past is used in the future as racism or why an African-American does what they do in order to explain that racism in the media and politics will be never ending. The audience is someone in or working in the media and people in politics that want to know about racism in media and politics.

 

Alterman, Eric. "Right-Wing Racism: Past, Present-And Future." Nation 294.12 (2012): 10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Apr. 2013.