MEN'S HEALTH AMERICA SPECIAL REPORT, PART V
Men's Health: Lessons Learned in Media Coverage
January 23, 2003
This series of Special Reports has documented four biases in the mass
media: 1. A double standard of media coverage has emerged in which men
are commonly depicted in a negative light (1). 2. Media coverage of
gender health stories is often slanted because of inaccurate coverage
of gender health controversies (2). 3. Media distortions sometimes cater
to special interests that seek to pass gender health legislation (3).
4. Media coverage often reveals an underlying indifference to men's
health needs (4).
-Carey Roberts
A Double Standard of Media Coverage;
Media
Bias in Coverage of Gender Health Stories
Men's
Health: More Bias in Media
Media
Indifference to Men's Health
Notes:
1. McGowan W. Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity has Corrupted American Journalism. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001, p. 18.
2. Isabelle de Courtivron: And with Good Reason, a review of Marilyn French's The War Against Women, New York Times, July 5, 1972.
3. McGowan W. Coloring the News. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001, p. 19.
4. McGowan W. Coloring the News. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001, p. 238
5. Men's Health America: A Double Standard of Media Coverage. Rockville, MD, 2003. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/menshealth Message #655.
6. Goldberg B. Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2002.
7. Herman ES and Chomsky N: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon, 2002.
