ethical issues in the media industry
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ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRY
Alternative subcultures and discrimination
towards these subcultures.
ALTERNATIVE SUBCULTURES
One of the ethical issues In the media industry is the way
someone looks or dresses is portrayed. Different subcultures such
as Goths, emos, punks etc, have been portrayed in the media as
being bad, rebellious people who dress like this to go against what
other people decide to do, and that they are all being made to do
this by the devil.
GOTHS
A lot of bad things have been said over the years in the media about Goths and this is
mostly because people are afraid or don’t understand what the gothic subculture is about.
Being part of the gothic subculture myself, people around you expect you too do certain
things, they think that you sit in your room all day in the dark being depressed, listening to
music and wear black everyday, but that isn’t what it is about, goths have different reasons
for being part of the subculture, my reason is I like the music and the clothing, this doesn’t
make me or any other Goth or anyone who is part of a subculture less of a person than you
are, we just dress differently and have other interested than you might do. The goth scene
first came about in the late 1970’s early 1980’s when punk was about and bands like, joy
division, Bauhaus, the cure, sisters of mercy, Christian death, and other bands came about
starting the gothic music scene. This is a link to a video on youtube explaining to people
what goth is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIrkXyIGFyw
COLUMBINE SHOOTING
The columbine high school massacre happened on
April 20th 1999. Eric harris and dylan klebold killed
12 students and one teacher, the media portraid
them as bully victims and that they had a reason to
do this. The goth subculture were blamed for this ,
because the shooters were dressed in all black so the
media had blamed the music and the films they
listened to.
MARILYN MANSON
Shortly after the columbine shooting marilyn manson got a lot of blame
for the shooting because the media had blamed his controversial music
and because of the way he dresses so they pointed the blame to him. He
was then threatened daily by people calling him a devil worshipper and
saying they were going to kill him because those two boys killed there
fellow students, it was later discovered that the boys weren’t goths or fans
of his music, causing the media to stop harrasing him.
WEST MEMPHIS THREE
Another case that caused a lot of controversy is the
west memphis three case, on may 5 1993 three 8
years old boys went missing, Stevie branch, Michael
moore, and Christopher byers . The next day the
police found them dead in the woods. After
investigating for a month and not being able to find
leads, 3 teenage boys were arrested for the murders.