Analysis Of Racism In Fox News

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As an overall theme for my Media Montage I chose to analyze racism in Fox News. Racism is broken into even smaller categories such as how Fox News frames stories, says racist stereotypical comments, they race bait guests, and use people of color to be openly racist. Fox News uses the ‘race card’ to make their news stories bigger and more appealing to their audience.
I chose racism because the news recently has brought about more discussion on racially charged issues. In class earlier this session the term “microaggression” was talked about and got me thinking. I wondered where this occurs most frequently and what kind of oppression mainly uses this technique. T.V. news was the media outlet I thought of that could most blatantly use microaggression.

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