Media Portrayal

A range of attitudes and beliefs are obvious in public discourse about the effects of media exposure. The media has a strong influence on many of the public’s perceptions dealing with health related issues. Throughout the media, they advertise many of these perceptions through prescription drugs, the illegal drugs and alcohol, the perfect body image, many illnesses and sometime even ethics. Parents are especially concerned with how media exposure and content may influence the healthy development of their children. However, efforts to restrict the content of media influences have raised important questions about the types of features or interactions that warrant attention, the extent to which the media choices should be restricted for certain age groups, and the need for policy interventions as well as parental and professional guidance. The entertainment industry has a huge effect on the public and its viewers because they build a more real issue that could really happen or has already happened to someone. As a viewer, many television shows that show a lot of fashion and everyday life for women draw my attention the most to watch. These particular shows involve many fashion trends, show women’s real lives and real confusion in the developed society, but also without knowing can influence many health issues. In this paper, I will discuss an analysis of the popular television show, Sex in the City, and will establish how the media has a tremendous influence of what a male or female’s ideal of one’s body image should look like.

Before a person even watch’s their first episode of the show, or even have a clue of what it is about, it is hard to miss the fact that is extraordinarily popular. You cannot even pass a magazine rack without seeing the main actresses’ mug, guarded by her similarly-dressed and sexily-posed co-stars. It is a show that needs to be considered by anyone who wants to stay at the top of the peak of the pop-culture wave, but who says that is how everyone wants to look? Sex in the City is a series where Carrie Bradshaw lives in the city with three of her best friends including the oldest, most sexual and confident of the foursome (Samantha), the most conservative and optimistic of the group, and the one who places the most emphasis on emotional love as opposed to lust (Charlotte), and Carrie’s best friend that is a lawyer with extremely cynical views on