"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.