1. ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE
MEDIA INDUSTRY
Alternative subcultures and discrimination towards
these subcultures.
2. ALTERNATIVE
SUBCULTURES
One of the ethical issues In the media industry is the way someone looks
or dresses is portrayed. Different subcultures such as Goths, emos, punks etc,
have been portrayed in the media as being bad, rebellious people who dress
like this to go against what other people decide to do, and that they are all
being made to do this by the devil.
3. GOTHS
A lot of bad things have been said over the years in the media about Goths and this is
mostly because people are afraid or don’t understand what the gothic subculture is about.
Being part of the gothic subculture myself, people around you expect you too do certain
things, they think that you sit in your room all day in the dark being depressed, listening to
music and wear black everyday, but that isn’t what it is about, goths have different reasons
for being part of the subculture, my reason is I like the music and the clothing, this doesn’t
make me or any other Goth or anyone who is part of a subculture less of a person than you
are, we just dress differently and have other interested than you might do. The goth scene
first came about in the late 1970’s early 1980’s when punk was about and bands like, joy
division, Bauhaus, the cure, sisters of mercy, Christian death, and other bands came about
starting the gothic music scene. This is a link to a video on youtube explaining to people
what goth is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIrkXyIGFyw
5. COLUMBINE SHOOTING
The columbine high school massacre happened on April
20th 1999. Eric harris and dylan klebold killed 12 students
and one teacher, the media portraid them as bully victims
and that they had a reason to do this. The goth subculture
were blamed for this , because the shooters were dressed in
all black so the media had blamed the music and the films
they listened to.
6. MARILYN MANSON
Shortly after the columbine shooting marilyn manson got a lot of
blame for the shooting because the media had blamed his controversial
music and because of the way he dresses so they pointed the blame to
him. He was then threatened daily by people calling him a devil
worshipper and saying they were going to kill him because those two
boys killed there fellow students, it was later discovered that the boys
weren’t goths or fans of his music, causing the media to stop harrasing
him.
7. WEST MEMPHIS THREE
Another case that caused a lot of controversy is the west
memphis three case, on may 5 1993 three 8 years old boys
went missing, Stevie branch, Michael moore, and
Christopher byers . The next day the police found them dead
in the woods. After investigating for a month and not being
able to find leads, 3 teenage boys were arrested for the
murders.
8. WEST MEMPHIS THREE
Damien echols, jessie misskelley and jason baldwin were
arrested in 1993 for the murders of three eight year old boys,
but after serving were released after taking an Alford plea
because they were wrongfully convicted of the murders.
