Christensen Post

Premise
-Misconception
-Race
-Gender
-Power
-Whats Populr
-Stereotyping
-"Accepted Knowledge"
-Images of Society

Arguement
Christensen argues that people of all ages should be more critical about what they see in the media; television, adds, movies, radio newspaper. If people start analyzing what they have failed to notice their entire lives, there will be a large push for change in society. People have been overlooking what they "think" they enjoy for so long, and by started in her class room, Christensen is sparking the minds of her students who are then going out and making a change outside of the class room after analyzing stereotypes that are being pushed onto youth, starting at very young ages, suggested what dreams they should have, and what is and is not accepted in society today.

Evidence
"...the Disney movie Peter Pan, were cited by the children...as their number one source of information."
"...I show a Popey cartoon, "Ali Baba and the 40 Theives," that depicts all Arabs with the same face, same turban, same body,--and they are all thieves swinging enormous swords."

There are many more quotes I think that could be taken out of this article that all show overwhelming evidence that depict certain stereotypes and power advantages by just using a few selected films that are very popular in modern day society. I have heard of certain anyalization like this in the past over kids films and I would have to agree that there is a large amount of evidence that Christensen could use to back up her arguement.
However, I think that by having the need to feel like you have to analyze everything that you see or hear on tv is going a little over the top. Even if Christensen sparks this extream revolt against the media today, I think that stereotyping will never be abolished. I think that there are so many things that are terrible that are happening in the world today. Any type of racism or hatred towards another culture is a terrible thing. The way films and cartoons have been made all these years up until now do portray a lot of these aspects. However, it think that in the last few years there have also been a lot of efforts to make these problems go away by the broadcast of new television shows available to kids. I would agree that the majority of television shows shown up until about five years ago are based upon white middle class lives, and I understand what Christensen is trying to do. However, I don't think that a problem like this is ever just going to go away. What happens when television shows start portraying just black, asian, or spanish families? The white population will have a problem with that. I mean as drastic as it sounds, the only real way to stop stereotyping is to shut down the media all together, and I don't think that that will ever happen any time soon.