The Essay in Balk Talk by Donesky discusses the subject of stereotypes help on people of Appalachia and the effects that forms of mass media have directly on the region and the people.  At one point in the essay early on, the play The Kentucky Cycle was called a “drive-by-shooting” by John Ed Pierce.  What is meant by this?  What sort of impact did this have on these people and the views that others held of them.  Firstly, calling the play a “drive-by-shooting” is a fairly apt comparison.  The play itself put the people of Appalachia, especially Kentucky, under a bad light.  The play is just one more popularized work that completely damaged the views people held on Appalachians.  It made them seem uneducated and mean, and this barely scraps the surface.  The impact that things such as this play have on these people can be seen very easily by the way Appalachian people are portrayed and these stereotyping works can bring a negative connotation to things that they are associated with and the people themselves too.  The reason the play was called a drive-by-shooting specifically was that it was just one more thing in popular media in a long line of other things that portrayed these Appalachian people in a poor light, and it was certainly not something that needed to happen.