Body Image Reflected In The Media

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Media Misinformed
It’s not hard to think about the media, for most of us its accessible right at our finger tips. Media is found all over the place such as; television, magazines, billboards, ads, music and so much more. Media being all over the place it is hard to avoid, making it hard to decide what to and not to believe, which stories are true, and what is actually going on in the real world. Media is how a lot of people get their information but sometimes it’s not the best way. The media represents and sometimes misrepresents body image, world relations, and gender roles.
Body image by definition is the subjective picture or mental image of one's own body. “Having poor body image can have numerous negative effects: one of the most common is lowered self-esteem, which carries its own associated risks.” Media portrays the perfect body image for a girl is someone who has a flat stomach and a small waist line. For men it’s someone who is tall and has large muscles. Not everyone can have the “ideal” body type. Trying to gain this “perfect” body is hard and time consuming it would be better for everyone to love who they are with the body they have and society has to accept that. …show more content…

Media reports everything violent or destructive in the world, they rarely talk about the better things that are happening. When we watch news or find things on the internet we have to decipher what to believe and what not to believe. “What the media reports, how, and who influences all this is no doubt important in how we understand the issues and what opinions are the perspectives we therefore form.” Everyone watches the news and forms an opinion about it but what people don’t realize is that news stations don’t tell the entire story they only tell what they want you to know or what they think is important. Without all the facts and knowing exactly what happened no one can form a correct and knowledgeable

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