The media is a form of entertainment that lets us escape reality and distract us if just for a moment from the pressures of life. In this time, we are at ease and absorb messages rather than analyzing and breaking it down. If we do try to be media literate we will see that the world as the media shows portrays it , deals with race, class and gender on many grounds. If we use the criticism as an approach rather that swallowing everything the TV tells us we will realize that as Michael Parenti shows in “Political entertainment” we will and Patriarchy we will see how many hidden agendas of media production and how many things we thought was just “the way it is” is culturally constructed. And the media serves support it, package it is and put bring it to the market.
In the episode, Papa’s Cabin of very famous TV show Veronica Mars can identify as the hidden curriculum that Parentis addresses in the article, while not adhering to the typical police / crime show discussed by Stuart Kaminski. Although the show broke through the usual male dominated cop / detective shows women still use their sexuality as said in patriarchy.
The show is about a young blond girl named Veronica arms the daughter of a sheriff. They live in a small town where live is perfect and the perfect picture of all American town when disaster overcomes when her favorite dean O ' Dell was murdered and her professor Landry in the main suspect. Dean O Dell’s wife was having an affair with professor Landry. The dean finds out about the affair and is killed. Evidence was found and the professor was put in jail. His teaching assistant Tim becomes a main character as he and veronica try to prove his innocence. Professor Landry has an alibi and is freed, while Miley O’ Dell collects insurance money and disappears along side Landry. Landry accidentally kills Mindy during argument on about. Wile in class when Tim takes over professor Veronica realizes that Tim is the murdered and the episode...