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Sensationalist media coverage contributed to mass incarceration because there were plenty of people who were locked up for various reasons. Sensationalist is a use of exciting/shocking stories & language to provoke public interest. In the video,  the black male is talking about giving kids crack since their parents aren’t there. The black male looked like a monster and they are portraying the image of blacks looking like monsters and looking almost as he is dead in a way. This is also showing the fact that black people are known for crack and use crack more. They want to get the public interest because they want the public to interact to this advertisement. Which means they are contributing to mass incarceration because of police see blacks doing crack/🤬 etc. they will be locked and and will serve mandatory minimum even if it was a just one time.  Also , the advertisement caused the people to want to react and get the government to take action in this problematic situation. The government actually did take action and decided to drop dugs in our neighborhoods instead of dropping them in the wealthy and Rich neighborhoods. Overall, they did contribute to mass incarceration because they’re setting the black community up so they can lock more is us up and mass incarceration can affect our community in Plenty ways by Letting people out of prison(for only a little bit of time) for the same reasons why more blacks are coming in.

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The justice system when it  comes to certain people who take 🤬 it is rigged and corrupted.There is a bias towards white people who do their own line 🤬 and how they are responded to by the government.Instead of being locked away for year long sentences they are given rehabilitation treatment.

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I believe that since most of the media is taken over by teens we would have the biggest takeaway from that commercial. I also strongly believe that what we usually see on the media or internet we try because if we see that see that someone are age is doing we might find it ok to try. So people should watch what they put on the media for a group like teens.

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As teens we are going up and learning from social media and i can be toxic to us. I think sensationalist media contributes to mass incarceration. Some teens may do 🤬 do follow others.

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Living in the United States as young adults,we tend to be more gullible.We listen to a lot of the things that we see on the internet and tend to follow the things on the web.If drug related things are posted on social media or social media platforms,then teens will try to follow it because they think it’s right.Now,if teens are following after these videos and off of things from the internet,then the crime rate and imprisonment rate will go up.

They’ll post things on social media because they know that teens are constantly on social media.They’re basically trying to force it on us which will lead to them controlling us and what we do.

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As a teen we learn and take in what we see on the social and what we see on tv. So advertising bad such as drug will cause teen to wanna try to look cool or be part of the trend

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🤬 are taking over peoples life's and 🤬 are good and bad for some people.People dont get it,it,s not what you take its the amount you take because some people take it for a medicine or to help them and
others take it to just to take there mind off of things and as they take more and more the drug take over there mind and causes them to buy more and more which will kill there brain cells.

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Being a teenager , you are frequently on social media . In my opinion ,sensationalist media greatly contributes to mass incarceration . Throughout social media there are shows and programs advertising in

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Sensationalist media contributed a vast amount to the at the time modern society. They brain-washed people into thinking 🤬 was this horrible epidemic. It caused people to overreact and to want the government to take action. This was all apart of a scheme to incarcerate black people because at the time the black community was flourishing and coming together for once. The government then put 🤬 into our neighborhoods, that cause incarceration which broke up lots of African-American families and weaken our community. Media has a big impact on our everyday lives which is why they pushed the "War On 🤬 into the media.

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I feel like sensationalist media does contribute to mass incarceration. There's a sheer reason why it's called "sensationalist" media; its meant to attract the most viewers by selecting the topics that'll gather the most attention. When you chose sensationalist media, to cover the topic of mass incarceration you are basically setting up Colored people for failure. Being as though I am Black, I have seen first hand how mass incarceration can affect the public; mass incarceration tends to happen to the black community.

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Somewhere around the 1960s-1980s(can't check, thanks Shoemaker for limiting my education), there was a high drug epidemic in Areas like Chicago. Chicago is known today for it's high crime rates but it wasn't always like that. Only after the drug boom did that happen and, soon, the war on 🤬 began during the late 1960s. Why did this happen? Given my previous statement we know why: 🤬 were pushed into highly populated hispanic, afrifcan american, etc communities in the United States. Of course, this would lead to gang wars and further crimilization of black youth who were pushed into 🤬 the more the spread continued.

It was theorized that the FBI had a part to play in this, pushing 🤬 into these areas to create a power vaccum to exploit due to the war/money crisis. They wanted to keep them down, to create money off them, and to further exploit them to further push the agenda. The media helped in this by pushing the "dangers of black youth" with countless anti-drug ads. Did this solve the problem? No, it did not as 🤬 continued to be a plague in these places. Why is it still a problem?

Lack of proper reform in these areas such as rehab or therapy has lessened the recovery process for most addicts. They end up relasping, specifically when they cannot sustain themselves once out of these prisons the government builds to contain them. To contain them and not let them try to retry their lives or be contributing members of society.

I do believe the war on 🤬 has had a worse effect now than it ever did in the past, specifically for communities such as the ones in Chicago. The media paints these people as heathens without realizing or trying to help these people recover. Instead, media profits off of us and our suffering for more money from the Government or the Rich to push this agenda.

It is truly sickening.

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Essential Question:
" Did sensationalist media coverage contribute to mass incarceration?"

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WPIX 1991 Anti-Drug PSA #2: Drugdealer Transforms Into A Snake