Coverage of Black versus White Males in Local Television News Lead Stories

The Differential Representation of Latina and Black Female Victims in Front-Page News Stories: A Qualitative Document Analysis

“…Most people do not have direct experiences with crime, so they learn about offenders and victims indirectly via the media (Davies, Francis, & Greer, 2008). For example, Black people appear in television news stories as perpetrators of crime 1.5 times more often than they appear as victims, which feeds into negative stereotypes (Chiricos & Eschholz, 2002), including notions that Black men are aggressive (Devine, 1989; Rome, 2006), uneducated (Creighton, Walker, & Anderson, 2014; Devine, 1989), and drug users (Welch, 2007). Researchers also acknowledge that minority women have consistently been stereotyped more negatively than White women (Brennan, 2006; Farr, 2000; Landrine, 1985).…”

“…To be clear, although there are studies of victims in the news, very few have examined how a female victim’s race/ethnicity may affect the amount of attention she receives or the narrative elements of her story. Most of the extant literature on media accounts of crime tends to focus on male offenders (see, for example, Creighton et al, 2014; Rome, 2006), differences in coverage of male and female victims (see, for example, Jeanis & Powers, 2016; Min & Feaster, 2010), or on victim newsworthiness (see, for example, Buckler & Travis, 2005; Gruenewald, Chermak, & Pizarro, 2013).…”

The Barack Benefit? A Content Analysis of How News Coverage of America’s First African American Presidential Family Alters the Overall Presentation of Blacks in News

“…Early investigations found that local news associates Blacks with criminality (Entman, 1992) often in greater frequency than crime data would indicate is the case (Dixon & Linz, 2000; Gilliam & Iyengar, 2000; Romer et al, 1998). Blacks are disproportionally associated with violence in both large (Dixon & Linz, 2000) and small (Creighton et al, 2014) market media. Surprisingly, in cable news, Blacks are less likely to be related to criminal traits than crime data would indicate (Dixon & Williams, 2015).…”

Different Game, Different Frame?: Black Counterdiscourses and Depictions of Immigration in Atlanta's African-American and Mainstream Press

“…Joe Feagin () refers to this idea as the “white racial frame.” The media's white racial frame portrays white Americans as normative, whereas other racialized groups are often constructed in less favorable ways. For instance, the mainstream news media systematically racialize African Americans as aggressors and criminals—and whites as their victims (Entman and Rojecki ; Rome ; Creighton et al ).…”

“…(Galloway 2010) The differences in the crime frame between the Journal-Constitution and the Daily World reflect public sphere and black counterdiscourses, respectively. Crime was racialized in the media and within the criminal justice system in ways that disadvantage blacks (Jacobs 1996;Creighton et al 2014). Racial profiling by law enforcement was a consistently salient issue for African Americans (Weitzer and Tuch 2002).…”