Media Stereotype

Stereotype is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her membership in it - wikipedia.

Stereotypes can appear in the media because of the biases of writers, directors, producers, reporters and editors and it can be either positive or negative.Stereotype usually relating to the class, ethnicity or race, gender, and sexual orientation.

One of stereotype example is black men are good at basketball and we can see this in many movies. When the camera captured a scene of people playing basketball, it always black men whose playing it. Why aren’t white men playing it? They not good at basketball, do they?