White News: Why Local News Programs Don't Cover People of Color

By Félix F. Gutiérrez. 2000

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In Social Sciences & Humanities

Citations in the corpus

MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models (2021, background): “Local broadcast news (at least in the United States) spends a lot of time covering crime stories, often in a racist and sensationalized manner [32, 23, 36].”
The Portrayal of Race and Crime on Television Network News (2003, background): “…these portrayals may be important because: a) network news enjoys a national audience, b) network news has a more prestigious reputation than local television news, and c) network news has more resources with which to cover news stories thoroughly (Gilens, 1996; Graber, 1980; Heider, 2000).”
Race and Ethnicity in local Television News: Framing, Story Assignments, and Source Selections (2003, background): “These researchers found that when it comes to race and news, often those gatekeepers, despite good intentions, continue to replicate coverage that could be characterized as racist (Gilens, 2000; Heider, 2000).”
Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime (2008, background): “television news uses stable production conventions that create biased depictions of race (Heider, 2000; Poindexter, Smith, & Heider, 2003).”
The Representation of Juvenile Offenders by Race on Los Angeles Area Television News (2006, background): “Advocates of this perspective argue that news reporters and editors are susceptible to this discourse and their news decisions are affected accordingly (Heider, 2000).”