The American media is incredibly melodramatic. The media takes complex issues and situations and simplifies them down to issues that seem inherently black and white--it creates absolute victims and villains, manipulating it's audiences' point of views. What people forget to realize is that the American media is a commercial venture; they are out to make as much money as possible, by any means necessary. The media is meant to entertain as well as give news, but sometimes the reality is fudged in the name of good ratings. An additional problem is that many people take news anchors and programs as having more authority than they should. As an example, many people in the United States see Muslims as terrorists, or to a lesser extreme, subconsciously as an enemy, because of the way that the media portrayed Muslims in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. In Elisabeth Anker's article, she breaks down this phenomenon. She makes the point that the pain and hurt that came from the attack needed an outlet-- or what Anker calls, the "demonization of the other." Several of my subjects noticed this phenomenon in their daily lives, and cited the misinformation that the media disseminates as a source of prejudice that they've experienced. They think that people's willful ignorance about Muslims and Islam has been aggravated by the way that they've been portrayed in the media since 9/11. However, it did not seem to be a trend that people within Greek Institutions were any more likely to have this prejudice than the average American.