Analysis Of Four Lessons From The Media's Conflicted Coverage Of Race

In the world of media, today, writers and journalists base their topics to write about on different fundamental ideas that are relevant to the contemporary. For example, in the past few months there has been all of this debate about police officers being too brutal and possibly prejudiced to black people around the country, and this is perfect for media use because of the race issue. This essay will be referencing several passages including the article by Eric Deggans called “Four Lessons From The Media’s Conflicted Coverage of Race.” The goal is to explain the depths of how stories like these are set up in terms of storytelling, representation, ethics, and industry. When writing something to be published the author has to develop a story

In basic terms ethics may be interpreted as the concerning of how society is held together and how it provides the stability and security that is essential for human life (1.)

In Deggans’ article his ethics and morals are based on how stories are being portrayed wrong. He even uses four key points that he describes in full: “We don’t have the right conversations,” “Trying to talk about systemic racial issues during a crisis is always much harder,” “Cable news has sped up the path from news reporting to punditry with disastrous results,” and “Each cable news channel fine-tunes its coverage for its target audience, including how that target audience sees racial issues” (2-6.)

Ethics and morals are a good thing because they show the good in society and how society should act. If a story portrays something bad, then that tells the audience not to repeat the actions. That is a moral. It can be looked at in this form. For example, the reader reads something about someone getting their head cut off. The reader, then thinks. Is it really okay to cut someone’s head off? That is ethics. The reader is thinking is it ethical for something like that to