Brea Talley

Wargo
AP Lang
10/30/14

Racial Status Quo

Is there even such a thing as non-bias media? Contrary to common belief that there is
a way to obtain non biased media; no matter how the media tries to portray a topic it is
ultimately inevitable that the article will come out biased in some way. Media outlets are the
hands that mold Americans perception as a whole. Media sculpts and determines how bias,
negative, and or positive a topic is portrayed. Words such as adjectives, verbs, pronouns and
punctuation are the tools that help sculpt. Americans usually, Americans news from mass
media there are normally different variations of the same topic.
There are numerous forms of media that Americans come across on a daily bases; from
the old fashioned newspaper, to the six oclock news. Journalists can manipulate the vocabulary
and punctuation; while broadcasters control their tone of voice and background music. They do
these things in order to convey either an extremely biased or moderately biased atmosphere.
Some choose to do so subtly, while others make it blatantly obvious. Simply adding in or taking
out a few words it changes the whole mood of the piece.
The racial status quo in America is frequently portrayed throughout all forms of media. A
prime example of how journalists try to maintain this racial status quo is that they generally
attempt to suppress minority Americans and at the same time they praise the majority Americans.

Just like other cases in the incident that accord in Ferguson Missouri where an unarmored
teenager, was shoot and killed by a police officer. The articles relating to the tragic
incident ; included unnecessary information that was irrelevant to what had taken place in
an attempt to draw the attention away from what had actually happened . Important facts
are left out and the article is merely filled with fillers. articles written by CNN, Infotrac
Newsstand and New York Times confirms this, leaving out words changes the entire feel of
an article.. "Suspect in a theft.......... Suspected of stealing this information is unnecessary and
only added in an attempt to discredit or make the victim appear less innocent. Media tends to
start from the hard core facts of situations by doing so they generally favor one side or person in
a story. More often than not media will negatively portray some aspect of the racial status quo in
America. That a majority of the population is in denial about, because of the form information
they are feed. " in the shooting" shows examples of how words that are similar and interchanged
for each other I'm the article instead of using murder or homicide it's referred to as a shorting
which slightly softens the perception of the situation. These are examples of how media attempts
to maintain the racial status quo.