... full-time job. This statistic illustrates that television is an incredibly powerful medium for dispersing information, entertainment, and misinformation: "negative images of African-Americans propagandize misinformation about African-Americans"(Cosby 137). Misinformation about disadvantaged groups in America has historically found plenty of airtime on television: "television brings to an otherwise heterogeneous audience a single set of values and social ... meet the positive TV land standard. She also found that the more television people watch, the more dependent they are on those image...

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... effortless attempt to portray black males in a more positive image, it has failed to perpetuate negative stereotypes. Yes filmmakers create shows and movies such as: My Wife and Kids, The Cosby Show, and The Brothers that reproduce the accurate portrayal of black men; but only a very small number are actually televised. There are more television shows, movies, and negative films that ... ...

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... because they affirm white consumers' self-concept as non-racist, as well as many whites' negative attitudes toward blacks. These analyses describe white consumers' positive responses to programs like "The Cosby Show" as a form of "enlightened racism" whereby white consumers' fears of seeming racist are allayed but their negative assumptions or racist attitudes about blacks in general go unchallenged. As a result ... ...

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