Representation- Newspapers

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Today I learnt about how ideas can be represented in/through the newspapers. I did this by watching a video that showed a collection of all the images of males and females from The Sun newspaper over a period of 6 months. They then put all the images on a wall, it showed a massive difference between how the sexes were portrayed in the paper.

The video showed that most of he males were doing sports or in real life situations, this is what was expected as its a sports based paper. However this was not the same for the females as they were shown modeling or in artificial situations the females were all seen as passive , and no sports images of females were found in the paper over the 6 month period. The BBC have done more research on this topic and they said: 

"often failed to show consistent respect for the dignity 
and equality of women generally".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20554942




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