In: Psychology
explain whether poor people in the media are portrayed as being deserving of their poverty or as victims of social forces beyond their control. Provide two clear examples to illustrate your position.
The poor people in the media are potryaed as victims of the social forces. These days media can do anything to increase their TRP, they keep on showing the same information whole day. Hence people are bombarded with the same information agin and again. For eg: their poverty is shown, how they live no the streets, what do they eat, how is their house, how do they earn etc? And on other hand some rich kids are also shown who live luxirious life and have everything what they want.
This is done many a times by to showcase the ignorance of government and how they have failed to keep the promises or what the industrialist class needs to do or how they are just busy with their own lives. In all these things ti inflation, rising of prices and their income is shown, everything in pieces.
Many a times a daughter or son of poort man is shown when he gets good marks in the exam or so and the same story is repeated.