...By definition, media bias means, “Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.” There are several types of sources, such as technology and articles, that is efficient at spreading information through media. However, society is negatively affected when media portrays bias and non-credible information through technology and published articles. There have been several resources on the problem regarding wage gaps due to ethnicity and genders. In the article, It’s Time We Talked About the Ethnicity Pay Gap, Sadiq Khan uses her personal experiences to prove that blacks and women have a more difficult time trying to...
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...Case Analysis Name: Po-Lin Chiang Date: January 31, 2014 MBA 545 City University of Seattle Background In 1999, Coca-Cola was facing a serious lawsuit which was strongly testify Coca-Cola, because of Coca-Cola systematically discriminating against African-Americans in promotions, evaluations and pay lower salaries than whites. This was a famous racial discrimination lawsuit in the history (Winter, 2000). Plaintiffs At beginning, some workers of Coca-Cola Company were accused and terrorized those African-Americans who work in the same working environment. However, Coca-Cola didn’t make any solution to solve this problem; as a result, more than 2000 employees decided to sued Coca-Cola Company. Accused The salaries which Coca-Cola Company paid for their black workers were lower than white workers. They were doing the some work but the salaries ware totally different; consequently, white workers were earned more than $26,000 average a year. This racial discrimination lawsuit was a very serious problem in Coca-Cola Company’s history. Analysis Racial discrimination is a very serious problem for Coca-Cola Company; it can cause a severe damage on Coca-Cola Company’s brand image. It will affect their future sales performance. In the beginning, Coca-Cola Company can avoid this lawsuit, if they were cared about those black workers’ right. Coca-Cola made a wrong decision about this case which they choose to ignore their workers’ right; as a result, they going to the court...
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...COCA-COLA SETTLES RACIAL BIAS CASE http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/17/business/coca-cola-settles-racial-bias-case.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm By GREG WINTER Published: November 17, 2000 In the largest settlement ever in a racial discrimination case, the Coca-Cola Company agreed yesterday to pay more than $156 million to resolve a federal lawsuit brought by black employees. The settlement also mandates that the company make sweeping changes, costing an additional $36 million, and grants broad monitoring powers to a panel of outsiders -- an unusual concession in employment discrimination cases. The lawsuit, filed in April 1999, accused Coke of erecting a corporate hierarchy in which black employees were clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, averaging $26,000 a year less than white workers. As redress, the settlement provides as many as 2,000 current and former black salaried employees with an average of $40,000 in cash, while the four plaintiffs whose names are on the lawsuit will receive up to $300,000 apiece. ''There's going to be fundamental change at the Coca-Cola Company,'' said Kimberly Gray Orton, a plaintiff who worked for Coca-Cola for 13 years and who says that she made less than the white workers she supervised. ''A lot like a rock in a pond, there are going to be ripples.'' Perhaps more surprising than its size, the settlement gives an outside panel, appointed by Coke and the plaintiffs' lawyers, limited authority to revise company personnel policy, a...
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... Abstract Sociology in the criminal justice system s both interest but very complicating. There are some many different aspects on what can be touched upon. The criminal justice system is known to be very biased. In specific terms the system is racial bias and unfair. The America uses a formal social control, to deal with crimes. Statistics show a fair difference and connection between race and the percentage of people convicted of crimes. Other components influence these percentages but always seem to come back to race. The racial unfairness has taken a toll on the American people and contrasts the idea that America was originally built on Incredible as it is America is one of the most tolerant nations in the world. America is a country that was built on freedom, pride, happiness, and equality. Though this is common knowledge and an allusion of the American people, the country has some faults. Equality is a major moral in America that was fought for in history and even in today's society. Throughout our history minority groups have fought hard for there rights and we have accepted the fact that its wrong to discriminate. It is agreed that racial discrimination is wrong as well (Banks, 2009, p 79). Racism has been a problem in America seen the country was founded. Slavery was a form of racism in the early centuries of America. Our judicial system has been a pride and joy for some Americans for others criminals off the...
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...Racial Bias in Therapy: How to ethically treat all cultures Heather Worthey Liberty University Abstract Despite how technologically advanced the United States is, the United States has a long way to go when it comes to bias. Racial bias is alive and thriving today. One's skin color does not make them less or more of a person, but some still hold onto the hatred they have for others. Some racial bias is conscious in the words and language used. Racial bias can be placed on others unintentionally by our thoughts and actions. As counselors, we have to be able to keep our bias in check. Having bias in therapy can be detrimental to our clients and to us professionally. When we let our biases cloud our judgment, we may look negatively on others when she should be trying to help them instead. Letting our biases be part of therapy can also set us up for ethical violations which could endanger our licensure. It is important that helping professionals take the time to educate themselves on racial bias and make the efforts to not let bias effect their clients and the therapy sessions. As counselors, one will interact with many different people from many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Counseling is no exception to the cycles of racism, despite the education and intentions of therapists who would like to think they would never deliberately act in a racist manner toward any of their clients. Unfortunately, even when a therapist has received multicultural training, racism...
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...for the suspects in question. Wilson’s offer wasn’t needed due to the fact that the suspects had disappeared. Moments later Wilson drove past two young black males and ordered them to move off the street. After a second look, Wilson realized one of the young men matched the description of the stealing progress. Wilson radioed for backup and in little over minute and young man lay dead at the scene. He was unarmed. That young man was Michael Brown; the 18-year-old black boy who’s shooting this past summer sparked a major controversy and raised a lot of questions about Police Shootings in the U.S. and their undeniably pattern of racial issues. Currently young black males risk of being shot by police officers is 21 times more likely greater than young white males (Staples). Due to police tactics motivated by racial profiling, racially bias news and media that enhance minority stereotypes, United States law enforcement is targeting minorities that results in Police Shootings caused by racism. After Michael Brown’s tragic death, many realized that our country had seen similar circumstances like this before. A young, unarmed, black male shot dead, taking with him, the alternative perceptive of the incident in question. We are only left with shooters’ recollection of incident and possibly a few witnesses. It’s a story that we know all too well. Police shootings happen every day, but recent events begin to raise many questions; Of all these police shootings how many are...
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...several factors. These include mature themes related to racial slurs, racial bias towards African-Americans, swearing, and sexual content, which raises Conservative concerns for those who read it. I am of the more liberal opinion that this is a novel that is appropriate for older junior high students and all high school students because it teaches about a part of U.S. history, specifically, racism in a southern town during the 1930s, and its effects on people. First, the novel teaches principles about how to treat others. All residents of Maycomb, Alabama are perfectly content...
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...a black girl, and that most black girls like myself did not have the type of hair that I had. The woman then asked me if I put water on my hair would it curl up like one of my other co-workers hair who was obviously bi-racial. I was offended by her remarks and questions, and I was concerned for her and her lack of knowledge. I really had to sit and analyze what she had just said to me. What did she mean by most black girls did not have hair like mine? Is she saying that all black women have nappy, coarse, hair that is not pretty? Is she saying that it is impossible for a black woman’s hair to curl? To avoid being rude I told her thank you, my hair curls, and I walked away dumbfounded. I had another incident occur in Vegas that was non race related, it was size related. I am not a skinny woman, I am very curvaceous and in my culture it is welcomed and viewed positively. The term for women my shape and size is “thick”. Some individuals view it as a good thing and some do not. Well every year my friends and I go to Vegas for Memorial Day weekend, and we research exclusive parties and attend them. One particular year we had absolutely no luck on getting into these parties. I stopped a promoter and asked him why is it that we are here early, have the money to pay to get in, and have been standing in line for hours still unable to get in. The promoter (who happened to be black) stated to me that we could stand in line for hours and have all the money in the world and we would still...
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...of the forms of discrimination which we need to have a firm understanding is refusal of standard rights to persons because of race, nationality, age and sex. Race It is against the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that an employer reject to accept an application or refuse hire, promotion, compensation, job training or any other employment privileges because of an employee’s race or color. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reports that it received 100,000 job bias charges during fiscal year 2012. Also, the EEOC has observed The number of people who filed race discrimination claims (33,512) increased in 2012 (Dipboye & Collela,2005).The EEOC indicated that in 2012, discrimination for certain racial minorities showed a deep impact in the current down turn of world of work. For example, in the United States, the unemployment rate remains almost twice as high for African-Americans relative to the white population in the United States. Because racial discrimination can cause many negative impacts on the companies like bad reputation, expensive lawsuits, and public embarrassment they take highly noticeable measurements to stop discrimination through training of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) laws and enforcing strict rules against discrimination....
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...J.E.B. v. Alabama Background and Facts Mother is seeking child support from a man who claims not to be the father of her child. The State of Alabama filed suit on behalf of the Mother. At petitioner’s paternity and child support trial, respondent State removed male jurors by using 9 out of 10 of its peremptory challenges. The trial court empanelled an all-female jury and found petitioner to be the father of the child in question and ordered him to pay child support. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals affirmed. In the Language of the Court The U.S. Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits peremptory strikes based solely on race, and it extends to forbid gender-based peremptory challenges. A peremptory challenge must not be solely based on the juror characteristic of gender. If gender does not serve as a proxy for bias, unacceptable jurors may be removed, including those members of a group or class. Previously, the Court held that Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment governed the exercise of peremptory challenges by a prosecutor in a criminal trial. A defendant has no right to a jury composed of people of his or her own race, but a defendant does have the right to be tried by a jury whose members are selected based on nondiscriminatory criteria. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly issued opinions that reaffirm its commitment to jury selection procedures that are fair and nondiscriminatory. Whether...
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...In the year of 2013, the United States only sentence and executed 38 people by the means of the death penalty (mic.com/articles). That statistic shows that the United States death penalty is not a punishment that is tossed around lightly. However, it is a punishment that the United States needs to keep. The writers of the Constitution wrote that there should and will be a death penalty (Is the death penalty unconstitutional?). Many people who oppose the death penalty say that it has racial bias, well according to Roger C, race is not a factor in the sentencing of the death penalty. Many people also try to say that it is far too expensive, this is false because sentencing criminals to life without parole adds to the expenses that prisons and taxpayers already have to pay ( does the death penalty cost less than life without parole?). The death penalty is fair, and effective and needs to be kept at all costs....
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...own personal integrity and also have consequences for many stakeholders with whom business organizations interact. But, personal decision making does not exist in a vacuum. The case study in this paper is about Merrill lynch and to identify what were the ethical issues involved with this company. Every organization has a culture fashioned by a shared pattern of beliefs, expectations, and meanings that influence and guide the thinking and behaviors of the members of the organizations. Corporate Culture Merrill Lynch, one of the largest brokerage firms on Wall Street, has agreed to pay $160 million to settle a racial bias lawsuit that wound through the federal courts for eight years, including two appeals to the United States Supreme Court. The payout in the suit, which was filed on behalf of 700 black brokers who worked for Merrill, would be the largest sum ever distributed to plaintiffs in a racial discrimination suit against an American employer. Soon after the suit Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch. (Weise) Merrill Lynch organization has broken the rule of ethics, which it had discriminated all black people that worked for Merrill. A company should not discriminate just because one is of a different race or where they come from but to have some morals and ethical standards by which they operate. Of course there are always two side of the story and one own opinion can’t just make a final conclusion as to why it happened but what went wrong. According to the plaintiffs...
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...Homework Week Six Course Name and No: GEB2430 Ethics & Social Responsibility Yanelis Diaz Prof. Georges De Schryver Saturday, December 01, 2012 “Compare and contrast the three main kinds of arguments against racial and sexual job discrimination. Which of these seem to you to be the strongest? The weakest? Can you think of different kinds of arguments not discussed in the text? Are there important differences between racial discrimination and sexual discrimination?” The three main kinds of arguments against racial and sexual job discrimination are Civil * Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 11246 and Equal Employment Opportunity 1972. Civil Rights Act of 1964 The federal Civil:- Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, prohibits employers from discriminating against job seekers and employees on the basis of race, religion, sex, pregnancy, and national origin. Private employers with less than 15 employees are not subject to the Act. However, some states do not set numerical limits. California, for example, prohibits racial or sexual discrimination no matter how few workers the company employs. * Executive Order 11246:- Executive Order requires companies doing business with the federal government to take steps to redress racial imbalance in workforce. It emphasizes on the equality given on all the aspects of employment given to someone. * Equal Employment Opportunity 1972:- Equal Employment Opportunity urge employers not to adversely single out employees or applicants...
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...unknown Seq: 1 5-JUN-09 8:30 Racial profiling and searches: Did the politics of racial profiling change police behavior?* Patricia Y. Warren Florida State University Donald Tomaskovic-Devey University Massachusetts, Amherst Research Summary Scholarly research has documented repeatedly that minority citizens are disproportionately stopped, searched, and arrested relative to their baseline populations. In recent years, policymakers have brought increased attention to this issue as law-enforcement agencies across the United States have faced allegations of racial profiling. In the 1990s, the politics generated by accounts of racially biased policing placed heightened pressure on law-enforcement agencies. However, to date, few studies have explored whether the increased social and political scrutiny placed on police organizations influenced or changed their general pattern of enforcement among black and white citizens. Using data in the search and citation file from the North Carolina Highway Traffic Study, this research specifically examined whether the politics generated by the media coverage of racial profiling and racial profiling legislation in North Carolina influenced the search practices of officers of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol’s drug interdiction team. The findings suggest that media accounts and the passage of new legislation were particularly powerful influences, which thereby reduced racial disparity in searches. Declines in...
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...These ideologies exist before we are even born; they form the social constructions and conditions that we are born into. But, ideologies are just a practice, and it is produced and reproduced in apparatus of ideological production. The media is a great example of an apparatus of ideological production (Marris, Thornham, 2000, p. 273). It produces social meanings and distributes them throughout society. However, as long as ideologies continue so will social struggles such as racism, which we will discuss in this essay. Media elites represent different races through media based on their ideologies. This has a predominant influence on the social constructions of race and contributes to our understanding of it. The media is bias. This is due to the bias in the minds of those in control of these media outlets known as the media elites. Harold Innis is a well-known Canadian political economist and a pioneer in communication studies who explores the concept of media...
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