The United States Constitution guarantees our first amendment right which prohibits any government limiting freedom of religion, expression, peaceful assembly, or the right of citizen to petition the government. The United States population has become more varied. In 2010, 27.6 percent of the population recognizes their race as non-white. In the year of 1999, there was 26 newly published TV programs, none of their programs had an African American in a leading role. This started the NAACP which stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This group support Hispanic Americans that help coordinated protests and boycotts. ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox wanted to create more of a diverse programming.

In the year of 2002, racial minorities were often lacking, unimportant, or taken on a stereotyped role in films. Studies showed that subgroups are even more diminished in the productive and decision-making positions. This unavailability of representation among creators, journalists, and administrators often affects the way sub racial stereotypes. Even though this stereotyping is in entertainment media, it is also in news reporting’s. Most journalists, editors, and reporters are predominately white.  In the year of 2000, there was 11.6 percent of broadcasting studio staff in the United States that were ethnic minorities. This issue is not improving ever well, in 2008, newsroom census had results of 13.52 percent. The under representation of these people, the news media are led by privileged that give narratives about people that are unprivileged in films that leads to racial stereotypes.

Journalists has a code of ethics such as, present news stories that inform and provide the desires of citizens, present issues equally, present stories in a way that focuses on their complexity, present diverse viewpoints, and observe government and corporations. Even though there are codes in place but not everyone follows the ethics for example, The Huffington Post.  A news website that has over 2,000 bloggers, blogging is sometimes slammed by more traditional journalists for the trend, to include biases, untrustworthy information, and unfounded opinions which would violate the journalistic codes.