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A new Media Tenor study on the coverage of ethnic and racial groups shows that leading US media distorts the image of American society to the general public and thus reinforce old stereotypes with a lack of diversity in reporting. The results show an unbalanced portrait of society with minorities playing secondary roles in news stories, while white Americans lead most of the political and economic events. A new Media Tenor study on the coverage of ethnic and racial groups shows that leading US media distorts the image of American society to the general public and thus reinforce old stereotypes with a lack of diversity in reporting. The analysis focused on reports with a specific US ethnic and/or racial group as the main protagonist in TV national network news, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Time Magazine. The results show an unbalanced portrait of society with minorities playing secondary roles in news stories, while white Americans lead most of the political and economic events. More alarming was the coverage with minority groups as the main players in the story.

Representatives of minority groups were often reported on in negative situations involving court cases, violence, epidemics and conflicts ? a dangerous portrait of the nearly one-third of the US population now identified as non-white and comprised of professionals, entrepreneurs, professors, students and investors expecting fair treatment from society.

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