NEWS
-Watched all shows on digital television
-KFOR-TV (NBC)
-Date and Time: Tuesday, June 10th @ 10 pm
-Owner and Director: Jill Fraim
-CEO: The CEO of General Electric, which owns NBC, is Jack Welch
-Anchors: Linda Cavanaugh and Meg Alexander, both white females
-Reporters: 2 of the reporters were white males, and Cherokee Ballard is a white female
-Communities discussed: Mostly OKC, and also Weleetka
-Analysis: When watching this newscast all I really saw was white people. There were white anchors, white reporters, and white people being interviewed. Actually, the only time I saw a person of color on this particular newscast was when they did a segment over a robbery. They shows footage of a hidden camera that a person had on their porch, and it showed 2 black males carrying out a television set out the front door of a persons home. I also noticed that the people that they interviewed were basically considered "white trash," but then again that is just a stereotype that I am putting on these people. In one case a man had his mobile home broken into. He was interviewed and in his interview he expressed that he wanted the robbers "knees broken and [he wanted] to chop their hands off." This particular newscast was rather boring, except for the incident in Weleetka, but due to lack of information the segment over the 2 young girls who were murdered was only about 20 seconds long.
REALITY
Girl Next Door
-Objective: To show the everyday lives of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends
-Main Characters: Hugh Hefner, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquadt, and Kendra Wilkinson
-It can be found on E!
-Demographic: Young female adults
-Producer: Kevin Burns (executive producer)
-Originated: Aug 2005
-Program following: Denise Richards: It's Complicated
-Analysis: All 3 of the girls are white, blonde, and big breasted. They are all in there 20s. All of the girls are very ditsy. Hugh and the girls live in the Playboy Mansion where they are catered to by maids, butlers, and assistants. All of the girls are very sweet and polite, but they are obviously uneducated. The images on this show portrays these girls as just absolute "eye candy." They pose for playboy magazines, their clothes barely cover their private areas, and in some cases their clothes do not even cover them. The program is based on their day to day activities which includes flying the Playboy private jet, attending extravagant parties, and basically getting paid to be beautiful.
ENTERTAINMENT
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Drama
-Main Characters: Christopher Meloni- Detective Elliot Stabbler and Mariska Hargitay- Detective Olivia Benson
-Originated: September 1999
-The program can be found on NBC and USA
-Adults usually watch this program, although I think a lot of young adults watch the show, too
-Plot: On this particular episode that I watched it was about a girl with special needs and the issue of her alleged rape. Throughout the entire episode the girl is unable to provide the detectives with information about the pervert. Also in this episode there is an issue about abortion. In the end, they find the pervert and the girl is able to keep her baby.
-Most of the characters in this episode were all white. Every detective is white, with the exception of Ice-T's character and B.D. Wong's character. Detective Odafin Tutuola (Ice-T) is black and Dr. George Huang(Wong) is Asian. When I watch this show I realized that almost all of the victims are white. Most of the perpetrators are white, too. The really only time I have ever noticed a person of color on this show is when the detectives are interviewing them while they are in jail or in a rough part of a neighborhood.
-Producer: David Declerque
-It belongs to NBC, who is owned by General Electric
-The CEO of GE is Jack Welch
-The commercials that take place during this show are usually commercials that have to do with the shows played on that particular channel. Also there are movie trailers, advertising for alcohol, and medication-This particular program was followed by the show Monk.
1 comment:
Hey there, We make certain assumptions based on the roles people play. Cherokee Ballard is Native American. Bridget on Next Door is working on her 2 Master's degree. Yes. Also, all three ladies have extensive marketing contracts that have come from being one of Hef's girls. I think they are pretty smart in reference to getting paid. Everyday we have an onslaught of immages that continuously feed us a contrived reality, so how do you think that has had an affect on viewers? What is the definition of white trash? What was it on that news show that caused you to use that term instead of just "white people" did it have to do income, class, appearance or all three?
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