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6. Who said media stereotypes of blacks has lead to a moral panic? (criminal)

  • Watson
  • Moore
  • Dijck
  • Cushion

7. Which of the following is a Hegemonic Marxist view?

  • Most journalists are white, serving a predominantly white audience - this is a product of economics rather than ideology which means whites provide more profit so must be focused on which causes the marganalisation of ethnic minorities
  • The media is a window to the world, it reports objectively and serves the public interest or fear losing their audiences. If blacks are presented as criminal, this is just a reflection of real fears
  • The media takes an ideological approach using divide and rule tactic on the ruling class by distracting from class inequalities. Media causes moral panic that leads people to think immigration is more of an issue than unequal income distribution

8. A criticism of the Pluralist view is that media is in fact constructing racist ideologies rather than mirroring existing ones

  • True
  • False, this is a criticism of the Marxist approach
  • False, this is a criticism of the Hegenomic Marxist approach

9. What were Dijk's three stereotypes of black people?

  • Criminal, a threat (to law abiding white society) and unimportant
  • Invading (white society), underachieving, rude
  • Criminal, underachieving, moral panic

10. Who argued black victims of crime are not paid as much attention as whites in the media? (unimportant)

  • Moore
  • Van Dijk
  • Ligali
  • Nahdi

11. Institutional bias - What are the two issues faced by ethnic minorities appearing in media?

  • Portrayed in low status roles and used as a result of tokenism, e.g. black presenters used as 'props' (Shah)
  • Portrayed as criminal and suffer bullying
  • Not given enough time to speak compared to whites and made to wait longer than white people of a lower status than themselves