Blog #4 Option 1

Option 1:How do the media images & stereotpyes of men & women impact how we view each other professionally (at school, at work, in politics, etc.)?

The media images and stereotypes of men and women have a huge impact on how we view each other (at school, at work, in politics, etc.). I think that they make the distinction in between men and women even more obvious, and I think that they do effect a lot that goes on in our everyday lives.

The media images and stereotypes of men make the men feel as if they always have to be masculine and burly. They always are told that they have to be strong and tough and able to build a house with their bare hands, and to own humongous, gas guzzling, trucks that have way to many superfluous characteristics that you might use once every lifetime. The image of men being tough is in every man's mind every day of their lives, and they feel like that always have to either be huge and muscular, or the typical tough guy with no feelings or emotions. The stereotypes also make the men feel as if they are always the alpha dog in the workplace and school, which obviously is not a correct thing to believe. Men still typically have the positions of power in the workplace, but are not nearly as dominant as they usually have been.
The media images and stereotypes of women have ever greater ramifications, they make women feel as if they always have to be beautiful and skinny. The women then put on tons of makeup and try to maintain their weight, and are worried only about living up to the stereotypes. In school and the workplace, we only see this face and this body that media says the girls have to be, not how the girls themselves are. They are forced to not show their true self, and feel like they are not good enough just being themselves. We see the media, not the person. I think that women are most severely injured and hurt by the stereotypes that the media portrays.

Blog #3

I chose to use Sportscenter as my TV show, because I watch Sportscenter every day both during and after school, and I become very intelligent in regard to news in the sports world.
The first American Core Value that I noticed was Achievement and Success, I noticed that mostly all of the stories that were on the show were about the achievements of the players on the teams, and the teams themselves. Each story was about who did what in the game and how the team ended up doing, either ending with a win, or a loss.
The next core value that I saw was Material Comfort, a couple of the stories included some famous athletes in their personal lives, and many of the shots were of the athletes standing next to their brand new expensive cars, wearing overly expensive clothing, as well as wearing extensive jewelry.
Then I noticed another core value, Humanitarianism, the United Way is a NFL community help program that NFL players go and help unfortunate kids, and they showed all of the wonderful things that the players did for the children and how much they cared for the children.
Finally, the last core value that I noticed was Progress, the stories following some of the games they covered were about the players and how they could improve before the next game. They talked about how each of the main players struggled in the game and then how they believe the player should practice in order to make sure that they could perform at their optimal ability the next appearance.

Blog #2

I think that this all makes sense. I do believe that advertising has a significant impact on the actions, lifestyles, and beliefs of not only children but of people of all ages. I think that we are constantly bombarded with all of these advertisements and campaigns, and that all of them are indeed a big factor in everyone's lives. I think that the cases and examples they showed in this movie were the extreme cases, and that they used a biased point-of-view to exemplify their side of this issue. I think that the producers of this production had a clear idea and desires for the outcome and effects of their movie and they used information that was only pertinent to their cause. I do feel however that the media have huge impacts on the lives of people of all ages and that more recently, people of a younger age do in fact get targetted more often by the corporations.