How do you get news? How often? What do you read and view both online and offline? About how many hours a day or a week do you intentionally seek out news coverage? And one last question: when you think about news media and their coverage of race or gender or sexualities or disabilities, what are your own assumptions?



I usually get news from the internet or the television. I like to keep up with the news once a day. Sadly, I have to admit that most of the news I look at is entertainment news. Lately, I have been checking MSNBC and Fox 4 news, and the news is usually crime related. I probably spend about two hours a week looking and listening to news. When I think about the media and its coverage on race, gender, and sexualities, etc, I often find myself subconsciously making my own inferences, most commonly with race. With all of the news coverage on the war in Iraq, it is almost an instinct to assume that when a Middle Eastern person is on or in the news that they are involved in some sort of act of terrorism I feel that news media has conditioned the general public to create certain generalizations about different groups because of the way they are portrayed in news.