Analysis Of The Article Reality Tv Goes Where Football...

Advertisement or Stereotype The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that s power. The article â€Å"Reality TV Goes Where Football Meets the Hijab†, published in the New York Times in November 2011, introduces how the media controls the minds of the masses. Media has become a major issue in our daily lives. We live in a world that we cannot have access to what is going around us, unless we refer to the media. For instance, in our daily routine we usually listen to the news in the morning or at night before we sleep. The news has already been reported and its being delivered to us that fast, but how do we know if what is being said is what is actually happening or if it has been manipulated for political/social reasons? In the beginning of the article, Porochista Khakpour the author of the article, Iranian born American reared, mentions: â€Å"If anything made me, an American, it was televisions.† TV, especially the reality TV, resembles the characters and movie stars the way they want to not the way they are. Khakpour said, Darkness-dark hair, dark eyes, dark skin-always equaled trouble, as if it actually implied a dark side. When we watch TV, most of the movie characters are labeled, either by their gender, religion, or color. Khakpour reaches out to the outcasts, to prove her point on reality TV shows shaping our beliefs towards each other, especially the freaks†.