Media Flashcards
What do Ditron and Duffy suggest?
That 46% of news in the media is violent or sexual.
What did Felson come up with?
Age fallacy- the media portray criminals and victims as older and more middle class.
Why do the media exaggerate police success?
Because they want to present them in a good light
Who do the media exaggerate the risk of victimisation to?
Women, white people, and higher status individuals
What is dramatic fallacy by Felson?
The media overplay extra-ordinary crimes and underplay ordinary crimes.
What did Schlesinger and Tumber find?
That in the 60s, the focus had been on murders and petty crime, but in the 90s, murder and petty crime were less of an interest in the media due to the abolition of the death penalty for murder.
What did Soothill and Walby find?
That neswpaper reporting of rape cases increased from under 1/4 of all cases in 1951 to over 1/3 in 1985.
What are news values?
The criteria by which journalists and editors decided whether a story is newsworthy enough to make in to the newspaper.
