Argumentative Essay On Ageism
Name of article/news source: Huffington Post: Ageism, Sexism, Activism, and Jism
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/darcey-garland/older-women-invisible_b_7150714.html
Topic: Ageism (discrimination towards age)
Brief Description of it: The author of this blog post talks about her feelings towards aging, and how she feels that she is becoming more and more invisible as it happens. She fears that there will be a day where she is no longer attractive just because of her number. But then she looks at the positives of aging as well, she conducted her own form of a social experiment using social media. She created a dating profile on a website and aged herself using a photo-aging application, but used the same descriptions about her young-self …show more content…
It is not unusual for these networks to tailor their story's to match their outlets agendas. The mass media has an extremely diverse collection of viewers, both of which tend to segregate themselves based off the politics and underlying agendas embedded within the reporting. One of these agendas that have become a part of pop culture in recent years involves the LGBTQ community. What sparked a large part of this was the Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner, through the use of the ‘T’ or Transgender. This story came out right after Bruce had killed a woman, while texting and driving. In the event of this, to make the public completely forget he decided to use the LGBTQ community to spark controversy, and changing the mass media’s content. This brought up the debate over heterosexism between news outlets like Fox and CNN, alongside with social media websites. A lot of people struggled with this type of change PC culture was bringing about the nation and its government. Liberal and Hollywood media faught against heterosexism, while more conservative ones embraced its
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/darcey-garland/older-women-invisible_b_7150714.html
Topic: Ageism (discrimination towards age)
Brief Description of it: The author of this blog post talks about her feelings towards aging, and how she feels that she is becoming more and more invisible as it happens. She fears that there will be a day where she is no longer attractive just because of her number. But then she looks at the positives of aging as well, she conducted her own form of a social experiment using social media. She created a dating profile on a website and aged herself using a photo-aging application, but used the same descriptions about her young-self …show more content…
It is not unusual for these networks to tailor their story's to match their outlets agendas. The mass media has an extremely diverse collection of viewers, both of which tend to segregate themselves based off the politics and underlying agendas embedded within the reporting. One of these agendas that have become a part of pop culture in recent years involves the LGBTQ community. What sparked a large part of this was the Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner, through the use of the ‘T’ or Transgender. This story came out right after Bruce had killed a woman, while texting and driving. In the event of this, to make the public completely forget he decided to use the LGBTQ community to spark controversy, and changing the mass media’s content. This brought up the debate over heterosexism between news outlets like Fox and CNN, alongside with social media websites. A lot of people struggled with this type of change PC culture was bringing about the nation and its government. Liberal and Hollywood media faught against heterosexism, while more conservative ones embraced its