Saturday, December 22, 2007
Lost, The OC, Family Guy, Greys Anatomy, Nip/Tuck... ETC
Some people may not realize it but the shows on today's tv are not only for your entertainment value but also to promote secret messages. Through advertising for a company's product, by teaching people's decision making skills, or basically showing the audience how to live the life, the media has the power to turn switches on in your brain. "Giving the audience what they want to see", isn't a good excuse for having certain content in tv shows. The writers didn't have knowledge of knowing that the viewers would like what they wrote until after they saw the show. In just about every tv show or movie in today's society, Tv Tokenism is a large factor. White people have more screen time than any person of any other race. If the show is taken seriously or is screened as a "drama", the supporting characters are usually the "token" minority and aren't shown like the main characters are. What the media needs is a turning point, to prove that society is changing for the better and becoming more accepting of different races everywhere. Could this one ground-breaking show change the media from now until a new change? Or will it only take a news anchor?
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