After analyzing all of our editorial cartoons, we narrowed it down to three main "frames" that we believed were most relevant.
1. The media frame Latino immigrants as criminals and peons.
2. The media frame immigrants to appear as if they have negative effects on our employment rates, health care costs, and taxes.
3. The media frame U.S. immigration laws to be inconsistent and unsuccessful.
These messages are constantly fed to us through our everyday news sources. We then take these messages, and let them shape our minds to develop ideological beliefs about the issue. The media theory of cultivation. comes into play, as it "cultivates" society into thinking a certain way about immigration and undocumented workers.
The cartoons illustrating discriminations against immigrants were geared more towards truth than "truthiness." While the messages that society has come to accept about Latino immigrants, are geared more towards truthiness. The cartoons that criticized the U.S. immigration laws were displaying the truth as well.
As we learned in class, editorial cartoons are not there to make you take a side on an issue. Most can be related to satirical news shows such as "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show." They take the facts on an issue, and portray them in a way that makes us as American citizens think harder about the issue. They point out things that maybe we don't pick up on while watching our daily news programs, or reading the news paper. Editorial cartoons are definitely out to convey the truth to their audience.
