Week 6 Media Clip

Week 6 Media clip:

5 numbers of Stories

3 articles and 2 Columns

3 Positive and 2 Negative

In the present day, many teenagers consume too much information from mass media, including television, magazines, news and the internet. The mass media plays a very important role in promoting eating disorders among young girls. As we can see, Supermodels or Hollywood movie stars in popular magazines or in the commercials continue to be thinner and thinner. The average model weights 25 percent less than the typical women and maintains a weight about 15 to 20 percent below the healthy weight for her age and height (NIMH 2008). The average American models are 5’11” and weight only 117 pounds, whereas the average American women are 5’4” and 140 pounds (Mental Health matter 2001). We can see that many supermodels and Hollywood movie stars are very thin or have pencil-shaped bodies, such as Nicole Richie, Brittany Snow or Allegra Versace. This group of people can be the inspiration to young girls. Many young girls want to look like their favorite stars; therefore, these young girls will create eating disorder behavior in order to be thin like their favorite models or favorite stars. The key message for these positive slant is that media is the main causes of eating disorders.

Some people believe that the media is not the big issue for eating disorders. They believe that biological organs & genetic factors and societal factors are the main issue for eating disorders. Genetic and Hormonal factors are believed to play a main role for creating eating disorders. People with eating disorders are believed to have genetic problem lead to the illness. Individuals who have a family history of depression, alcohol abuse, obesity or eating disorders have a higher chance for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. There is a relationship between the eating behavior, such as dieting or starvation, and the nervous and hormone system. The feeling of hunger, craving and fullness are controlled by the brain and also involved a number of digestive hormones (NIMH 2008, 4) the key message is that there are other factors that cause eating disorders, such as biological organ, genetic factors or societal factors.

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Week 4 Media clip

# 7 of stories
#5 of news articles vs. # 2 of columns/editorials
#6 positive, # 1 negative

For this week news articles, columns and editorials. I have found that most of them were talking about the media that is the main cause of eating disorders. I'll summarize of what I have read from news articles and editorials from this week.

The media provides the idea that people who look thin are beautiful, smart and successful. As we can see that there are many movies, commercials, printed ads or even the bill board on the highway. The frequency of reading magazines and watching TV has a positive association with the idea of losing weight or improving body shape. Even though some girls already had a healthy, normal weight, they still saw themselves as big and fat girls. Moreover, girls who have eating disorders in early adolescence use particular media to learn how to become thinner and more attractive. Some of them use media to identify models and television characters who have body shapes they admire. In addition, a media provides basics of social comparison, which may serves the motivation to lose weight.

For the Column: this information was about one girl, Jennifer Shortis who got suffered from and eating disorder since age 15. She had developed anorexia . She is now 24. She weighs 76 pounds and is still struggling to regain a normal weight. Editorial: Does Hollywood "Cause" Eating disorders? In 1983, the death of anorexic pop singer Karen Carpenter first alerted the American public to the dangerous of eating disorders but today many celebrities and their eating disorders are topics for Hollywood gossip news, TV shows and online blogs.

The different between news articles, column and editorials. News articles : present the factual information about the topic, no opinion or conclusion are included. Editorial: editorial takes a position on an issue. there are fact and opinion. The writer often take a side on what they think or believe. Columns: it is about the opinion or experience in the topic. It allow in dept information but not need to provide both side of the topic.

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