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DOI: 10.2307/800102
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Crime Waves as Ideology

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“…Similarly, the reliance of both papers on officials or formal spokesmen as sources confirms the tendency noted in other studies for news accounts to assume, largely uncritically, the pertinence, accuracy, and representativeness of legal-bureaucratic data and categories (Fishman, 1978(Fishman, , 1980Gans, 1979;Hall et al, 1978;Tuchman, 1978) . 3 The importance of these points lies in the way in which they influence the structuring of the news narrative in the direction of a "dominant" or "preferred" reading of its contents.…”
Section: Concl U S I Onsupporting
confidence: 59%
“…Similarly, the reliance of both papers on officials or formal spokesmen as sources confirms the tendency noted in other studies for news accounts to assume, largely uncritically, the pertinence, accuracy, and representativeness of legal-bureaucratic data and categories (Fishman, 1978(Fishman, , 1980Gans, 1979;Hall et al, 1978;Tuchman, 1978) . 3 The importance of these points lies in the way in which they influence the structuring of the news narrative in the direction of a "dominant" or "preferred" reading of its contents.…”
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confidence: 59%
“…D'autres exemples pourraient être fournis illustrant le fait que les médias peuvent créer et alimenter de fausses impressions sur de prétendues augmentations de la délinquance violente des jeunes et, par la suite, être à l'origine de durcissements des politiques. Voir dans ce sens le cas de figure de New York dans les années 1970 (Fishman, 1978 ;Schneider, 1995). Voir également les exemples rapportés par Merlo et Benekos (1999 : chapitre 5).…”
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“…Since police or other institutional data which can be judged as authoritative, credible and impartial meet newsworkers' needs, there is little reason for them to look elsewhere for statistical documentation -particularly when discrepancies which these alternative data might reveal are more likely to create than to solve problems of news production. Federal agencies, policing services, university researchers and other similar sources have well-articulated relationships with media agencies (Fishman, 1978) Such sources package the information for the convenient use of media agencies and it is through access to these channels that newsworkers meet deadlines and keep within their budgets.…”
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confidence: 99%