What I had found is that white men were obviously the most prevelant in the paper especially in the A section. What was really shocking to me though was the coverage of black men in that section. What I had found is that most of the African American men pictured in the A section were either football players or our President. That's it! The metro section was completely different. African American men were only shown in this section as criminals in the Law and Disorder part. That is not to say that white men and women were not portrayed just as badly in this section, because they were, but it was not as frequent.
I think I found this information because our country is still not right in a lot of ways. Minorities are still are still looked at as the people who do the crime even though that is not neccesarrily the case and we have a African American president right now. I also think that big news companies are owned by white men who really don't care about diversifying the papers. They only care about what is important to them. News organizations can diversify by showing the good things that come about in minority communities and not just the bad. They could make a conscious effort to try and balance the scales on the coverage. The news media is supposed to show a fair and accurate reading of events that have happened in that past day. They are not neccerilly not conforming to their responsibliites, but they are not making an effort to balance it out.
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