Monster Essays - A Stereotypical Media
By: Clint Phillips
E-mail: a65phalcon@hotmail.com
A Stereotypical Media The media of today’s society plays the peddler to the stereotypes that plague our country. However, the media is not solely to blame. Susan Sontag states in her essay “The Image World”: “Through being photographed, something becomes part of a system of information, fitted into schemes of classification and storage”(Sontag 196). Through our own demand as consumers, the use of advertising in television, newspapers, and especially magazines relays to the public an erratic system of stereotypical informati....
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