Color Blind

When it comes to TV shows or movies I think of myself as color blind. I love watching any show or movie no matter who is in it or what is it about, as long as it has a good plot and it is interesting. In fact if I had to bet I would think that the majority of the populations are the same way. That we really do not care about the nationality of the actors, just as long as it’s entertaining and that we enjoy it. The constant need for people to bring up the whole race card, in my opinion was gotten quiet old and outdated. I think that the entertainment industry had come a long way over the last 40 or so years. The minority percentage in movies and TV has risen to almost the percent that the minorities are in the population as a whole (at least major minorities). But I would say that the lesser minorities do need to be represented more in movies and TV shows. I really liked how the show Friends dealt with the race card by not dealing with the race card. In fact I cannot really think of an episode that they even touch on race. Even when Ross’s girlfriend was Asian, they never mentioned anything about it. I think if more shows did this, people would stop talking about discrimination due to nationality and more focus one greater issue that affect the whole population in the US or even the world.

Why did you decide that?

In the article “Schema Theory and Measurement in Mass Communication Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in News Information Processing” by Robert Wicks, posed the question, “What causes a person to decide to read one article in a newspaper rather than another” got me thinking. What does cause someone to do this? To figure this out I looked at what I usually do, which is skim various articles in magazines and newspapers until one catches my interest. The reason I find things interesting usually varies from a topic that I am interested in and would want to know in daily life to something about always wanting to know more about a certain topic. The whole reading certain articles over others got me thinking about the reason that articles have such a huge range in mostly newspapers but sometimes in magazines too, is that the wider the range the higher the likelihood that everyone might be interested in at least one article. To go back to the question of what makes people choose one article over another all has to do with the individual and what their likes and interest are. For example a younger person is probably not going to read an article about menopause or something to that nature. This article usually would not relate at all to what is going on in young people’s lives today, so why would they read an article like this. They would not.