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...
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,...
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...
