Dyers Theory- How we treat people because of the way they are protrayed in the media.

Bin Lardin is a prime example to how the media makes us treat people the way they are portrayed to us. Bin Lardin caused a lot of grief and was in the media a lot for his actions. Because he was a Muslim man, the media taught us to see most Muslims in a bad way and give you a bad feeling about Muslims and stereotype them all as acting the way Bin Lardin did.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/01/obama-lacked-faith-afghan-policy-gates-201418252070558.html


Also, in movies and programmes, gay men are portrayed in a kind of insulting way to them. Because in programmes like 'little Britain', the gay man is shown in a girly way and it is very rare to see gay people that look like that. Most people interpret gay people to wearing makeup, talking girly and having a typical tea pot pose, but infact there are very little gay men who actually are like that.

Media is also a huge reason to why so many people stereotype youths. Most people suspicion when around teenagers as they believe that all teenagers carry knives and want to cause harm to everything and everyone. And this is the interpretation we get from media, like TV programmes and the news. Because the little of the population that are like this, get caught out, all teenagers are therefore stereotyped in a way that they all act this way.