Today’s society is centered on media rather it be broadcasting media, print media, mass media, or social media. Media is the center of it all. The media is our way of staying up to date on the latest news, passing and receiving information, basically keeping our lives in motion. The media has the ability to create social norms. One social norm that rubbed writer/director of the documentary “Miss Representation” Jennifer Seibel Newsom the wrong way was the misrepresentation of women in the media. The main claim or argument behind “Miss Representation” is that woman now days are being judged only on their appearance rather then their knowledge, achievement, and or power.
This social norm has affected women of all ages, in either the spotlight or girls still in academic intuitions such as high school. To capture the attention of the younger generation of women Newsome provided startling statistics on teenagers as well interviewing a couple high school girls affected by the media. The girls being interviewed in Newsom’s documentary tell how the media has made them extremely self conscious about their image One of the girls being interviewed mentioned the fact that women aren’t being taken seriously (INSERT CITATION). This comment leads Newsom to explain how the media has affected women in power and their ability to be taken seriously. Two clips, one of Sarah Plain being interviewed about her implants, another is two males joking about the downside to a female running the oval office would be her mood swings. Newsom’s documentary on media misrepresentation of women argues that media drives ordinary women to dissatisfaction with their image while also effecting women in powers image and ability to be taken seriously.
Newsom starting the video off with startling statistics such as teenagers spend thirty one hours a week watching television, ten hours a week online, seventeen hours a week reading magazines (INSERT TIME FOR CITATION). The