In the course pack, an associated press article title “TV reporter’s assault highlights women’s issues,” shows how sexualizing women and devaluing them in the media can seriously affect reality. In the article, a senior U.S. television correspondent experienced “a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” by a frantic mob during the last night of an 18-day revolt in Egypt. Another article in the course pack, “Four female journalists stripped naked in Sierre Leone,” states that four women were humiliated and degraded when they were stripped naked in Kenema District in Eastern Sierra Leone. The journalists were covering events that marked the “International Day Against Female Circumcision,” when they were attacked and abducted by supporters. The women were also forced to march the streets naked and were only freed after the police intervened.
Fact: Teenage girls face a one in four risk of sexual assault. If the media uses less exploitative representations of women and the news reports more on sexual assault awareness, this statistic could decrease.
Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsqH5X7qQCM
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