Thanks, I'll use this for my Violence course, where we'll be exploring the
"culture of fear" created by the media by emphasizing certain kinds of news
over others -- like why do people believe that it's gangs, rather than
pollution, that is the biggest threat to safety in south central LA?
Sarah Murray
William Paterson U of NJ
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From: "Evan Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: TEACHSOC: for culture and media classes - Media coverage research
Came across this today (now I forget where - I think it was the
American prospect website) and thought folks teaching culture or mass
media classes could use the findings from this website:
http://www.beawitness.org/methodology.
Specifically, they catalog how many segments ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN,
Fox , and MSNBC devoted in June to Sudan versus Tom Cruise, the runaway
bride, and the Michael Jackson trial. I didn't even think it would be
this bad, (and FOX wasn't even the worse culprit.)
Evan Cooper
