An interreality study of race and homicide news coverage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Building on ethnic blame discourse, the social threat hypothesis, and media bias theories, this article makes a quantitative interreality comparison between homicide news coverage and homicide statistics in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - a city with one of the highest homicide rates in the United States o...

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Authors: Klein, Tim V. (Author) ; Hodges, Quincy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Crime, media, culture
Year: 2023, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 209-232
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Crime reporting
ethnic blame discourse
Media distortion analysis
news representations of race
social threat hypothesis