MEDIA vs JAMAICA. How Media Destroys Jamaica.

Nonsense about Jamaica DEBUNKED. Media about Jamaica is exposed by a journalist. With this episode I'd like to share a few principles of why and how journalists create their stories and discuss how media has shaped our opinion about Jamaica. We shall also break down a few examples specifically from foreign media that illustrate how media destroys Jamaica. .

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???? CHAPTERS ????
00:00 Introduction
01:42 The Sad Reality of Journalism
03:26 What I knew about Jamaica
04:47 Stereotypes about crime and poverty
06:40 A third world country?
07:38 Statistics and Journalism
09:50 Good vs Bad Journalism
12:48 Why we believe the media
14:39 Hollywood and Jamaica
17:51 Media, Guns and Gangs
19:45 Media and Poverty
22:53 Media and Drugs
27:06 Travel Shows and Jamaica
32:30 Comedy and Jamaica
35:22 International News and Jamaica

???? OUR OTHER VIDEOS MENTIONED ????
► JAMAICA REAL ESTATE.
https://youtu.be/BbCLFnb0OVI
► ITAL FOOD AND LIFESTYLE
https://youtu.be/wzjOe1Z4uVA
► Where does MONEY go from TOURISM? ft Harmony Beach Park
https://youtu.be/9L5uSNMReL8
► Frenchman's Cove. Jamaica
https://youtu.be/anAoCJv5_bg
► How you can move to JAMAICA
https://youtu.be/Ezb3WtV3F0M

???? POVERTY AND JAMAICA ????
► Poverty Rate by World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAHC?locations=JM
► FULL REPORT on Incidence of Poverty by Region 1990-2014
by Statistical Institute of Jamaica, The World Bank and Planning Institute of Jamaica
https://statinja.gov.jm/living_conditions_poverty.aspx
► Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions
https://www.pioj.gov.jm/product-category/annual-publications/jamaica-survey-of-living-conditions/
► Poverty Line by UN
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-01-01-01a.pdf
► UNDP Annual Report 2016, Jamaica
https://www.latinamerica.undp.org/content/rblac/en/home/library/poverty/undp-annual-report-2016-highlights-fight-against-poverty.html
► Poverty Rate in the US
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-270.pdf
► Jamaica GDP (Upper Middle Income Country)
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2008&locations=JM&start=1968&view=chart

???? CHRISTMAS STORY ????
https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas-trees
https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas

???? HOLLYWOOD FILMS ????
Marked for Death (1990)
Cool Runnings (1993)
Cocktail (1988)
Knight and Day (2010)

???? DOCUMENTARIES ????
► Jamaican Gangs, Guns and Ganja (2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower_Posse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Coke
https://ctc.usma.edu/jamaican-organized-crime-after-the-fall-of-dudus-coke/

???? DRUGS AND JAMAICA ????
► UN World Drug Report 2021
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/wdr2021.html
https://www.unodc.org/res/wdr2021/field/WDR21_Booklet_4.pdf
► How fake drugs are made for movies
https://www.insider.com/how-fake-drugs-are-made-for-movies-and-television-shows-2020-12

???? TRAVEL SHOW AND COMEDY ????
► Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Jamaica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain:_Parts_Unknown
https://youtu.be/gUJlLHf5I_E
► Chris Rock: Tamborine, 2018 show
https://youtu.be/5bbKnj1-mR0

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