RT Article
T1 Cable News Source and Fear of Crime: A Comparison of CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC
JF Victims & offenders
VO 20
IS 8
SP 1421
OP 1441
A1 Mencken, F. Carson 1964-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/194011621X
AB This paper integrates cultivation theory and moral panics to create hypotheses about the effects of cable network news consumption (CNN. Fox News, MSNBC) on three measures of fear of crime. The study uses the 2015 Chapman University Study of American Fear. The analysis is a block model process OLS multiple regression with imputed missing values for independent variables. Net of significant controls, frequency of Fox News viewership is positively associated with fear of stranger and known offender violent crime, and property crime. National network news consumption also shows positive effects. There are no effects for CNN, MSNBC, nor local news, true crime TV, and TV crime dramas. Implications for theory and future research are discussed.
K1 Moral Panics
K1 Cultivation theory
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Fox News
DO 10.1080/15564886.2024.2437363