Blog 4

How do the media images & stereotpyes of men & women impact how we view each other professionally (at school, at work, in politics, etc.)?

Media messages are a hugr contribution towards how men and women view eachother. The media displays men as tough strong guys. The media encourages men to put on a "tough guise." This is a front that makes men act like they feel that they should act. Because of this, women look at guys differently. They are shown that tough strong guys get girls, and are successful. The media shows them the kind of man that they should be looking for, and sometimes the guys that are actually being themselves are left out.
The same goes for media's stereotyping of women. The media shows women to be sex objects. The media favors skinnier, pretty girls. It doesn't care about personality. Looks sell products, and the media takes advantage of this. However, this stereotype of women can have a negative influence in life. Men may only think that these skinny pretty girls are the only ones worth any value. It also may provoke violence towards women. In many movies, it shows men abusing women. This may be carried over to the real world. Men may look at women as objects of beauty instead of real people. Only the girls that dress pretty will get the looks from guys because that is what the media encourages.
Overall, the media impacts many parts of our lives. This is just another example of media worping our lives.

Blog 3

A show I like to watch is Sports Center. I watch it every night and that is basically the only show that I have time to watch. Sports Center represents American core values. The one it most represents is achievement and success. It shows highlights of professional atheletes. These atheletes have become successful in their sports. All the athelets show that activity and work has paid off. By keeping busy and focusing on their sports, they have gotten to where they are. Sports Center aslo shows efficiency. It is a one hour show, that talks about all the sports in that day. It allows people to get what they need in a short amount of time. It shows that people can improve themselves and maybe become like these atheletes. They can have progress. It sometimes talks about the salaries that the atheletes are making. This demonstrates material comfort. The atheletes are deffinately living, "The good life." It doesn't really show much individualism. But sometimes it will have a story about an athelete doing something out of the box. There also isn't much about freedom. Sometimes it talks about open trade clauses and sometimes that an athelete will retire. But it is mostly a show to cover sports. Sports Center represents conformity. Many of the people in the sports world are very alike. They are all working hard to win championships. If a single person isn't performing at a high enough level, they will be released. There isn't much humanitarianism. Everyone cares about their team. They are just trying to beat the snot out of the other team. Youthfulness is another very important part of the sports world. Almost all atheletes are young, and the anchors on Sports Center love talking about how young some of the atheletes are. Overall Sports Center is telling the viewers that they should value almost all of the core values. It shows people who have become successful, and tells the viewer why they have become successful. Many of the core values are what leads to becoming successful in America. So it only makes sence that a show that talks about successful people, would include many of the core values in their show.

Blog #2

The video addressed the issue of children being exposed to media. The media realizes that if they influence the youth, they will be affected for the rest of their lives. Children also influence what their parents buy. The media targets boys and girls differently. Boys like to be tough, and girls like to be pretty. It talks about how our country doesn't limit the types of media we put out. At the end of the video, the problems of this kind of advertising is talked about. Our media is training kids to become "little consumers." The media is guiding kids to make unhealthy decisions, and this is affecting their life expectancy.
The media is at no fault in this. They are just trying to make money. The entire concept is wrong, but media will not just stop because of this. They know that their advertising is causing problems. In order to fix this, a restriction would need to be put on the types of ads that are being made. This will probably never happen, but thats the only way to make it stop. If the media benefits from targeting youth, they will continue to do it so they can make more money.