Framing Class

According to Kendall, the media does not reflect our society but it depicts society as two distinct groupings of people. The first of these two groups is the wealthy and the other group is the rest of the American people. By doing this instead of representing every socio-economic group in America the media creates perception of not only what America is like but of what the American people are like. According to Kendall, and our society, the only way to get ahead in life is by associating yourself with the wealthy and powerful. This thought is shown in the media on a daily basis and Americans have come to believe this to be true. 

I agree with Kendall that the media distort our perceptions of inequality because the media makes it so that we can only see the wealthy and everyone else. The media has seperated Americans into two different groups and now we can not break free of those bonds. Now, we believe that being wealthy is the only point to life and Americans are striving for wealth more then ever. 

I think that watching tv makes people want to spend their money because they see material things and they want to purchase them so that they can live the way that the 'wealthy' do but what they do not realize is that the tv is scripted. People are striving to be wealthy because the television shows them that if they become wealthy then nothing is out of their reach.