Minorities_In_Media

Minorities In Media The portrayal of minorities in the media has been, and still is, a topic of some degree of concern to both audience and producer of media. C.Clark, in his working the Television Quarterly outlines a process by which ethnic minorities are integrated into the media. His outline consists of four main chronological stages: Non-recognition; Ridicule; Regulation; Respect. Non- recognition is the initial stage in which the minority simply does not exist in the media world, it is not recognized or acknowledged in the media. Ridicule, perhaps the most tedious stage of the four, describes the phase during which a minority is made- fun of, stereo- typed, or ridiculed, primarily by the majority who seeks to gain some esteem by means of degrading the minority. Next is regulation, regulation is an awkward stage in which the minority is portrayed as ‘protectors of the existing order’ (Harris). The final, most pleasurable stage in the minority’s integration process is that of Respect. This is the point at which the minority is treated with similar degree of reverence as is the majority; media equality has been achieved. Clark’s model, although useful, seems to be somewhat minority, media, african, minorities, americans, news, been, society, asians, ridicule, integration, ethnic, stage, regulation, process, majority, integrated, image, although, world, therefore, model, information, four, degree, clark’s, channels, broadcast, audience, american, against, source, simply, seems, ridiculed