Use your media literacy skills to analyze how race/ethnicity, class or gender has been covered in the mass mediaChoose two mass media sources across different years (LA TIMES, NY Times) and compare/ contrast how race/ ethnicity, gender, or classes are covered.• How does a newspaper present the relation between race/ethnicity, gender, and or class? Does that presentation tell you anything about the newspaper’s political agenda or its ideological point of view? For example, is the racialization or deracialization of riot violence implicitly or explicitly connected to a more conservative perspective (e.g., the riots are evidence of the need to maintain law and order) or to a more progressive point of view (e.g., the riots are evidence of the need for social reform)?• Finally, how does the newspaper coverage of the relation between race/ethnicity, gender, and class position YOU as a reader? Does it speak to your experience, racial or otherwise?Use 3 theoretical/empirical/conceptual sources to analyze your newspaper article.Must list all works cited within your paper, should not be included in the page or word count.Do not use terms like “more biased” or “more racialized”This is a paper about the media’s representation of events; you are analyzing how the media creates a reality.Be systematic and organized about which factors you consider in making your assessments. (i.e., format, content, diction, placement, advertising, etc.)Be willing to account for nuance and complexity and even contradiction.This is not a paper that asks you to uncover what “really” happened but rather a paper that asks you to examine how reality was shaped by newspaper coverage.
