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Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 6, 2020 | Documents

The Color of Change and the Norman Lear Center at USC’s study of crime television shows, “Normalizing Injustice,” found that the programs play a part in shaping skewed societal perceptions of the criminal justice system.  The shows depicted wrongful...

Race in the Writers’ Room: How Hollywood Whitewashes the Stories that Shape America

by lindaoppenheim | Nov 2, 2017 | Article

The power of the media to shape images and biases about groups of people has long been acknowledged.  The analysis by Darnell Hunt of UCLA of 1,678 first-run episodes from all 234 of the original, scripted comedy and drama series airing or streaming on 18 broadcast,...

Black Suspects Are Covered Disproportionately by NYC’s Late-Night TV Newscasts

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 24, 2015 | Article, Documents

“Two Media Matters reports analyzing nightly news coverage show New York City outlets have named African-Americans as suspects in murder, theft, and assault stories at a rate at least 14 percent higher than reflected in actual NYPD arrest rates averaged over the...

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