Network News: The Role of Race in Source Selection and Story Topic

Autor:	Lynn C. Owens
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Government History White (horse) Strategy and Management Communication media_common.quotation_subject Media studies Racism Race (biology) Foreign policy Elite Selection (linguistics) News values Social science media_common
Zdroj:	Howard Journal of Communications. 19:355-370
ISSN:	1096-4649 1064-6175
Popis:	The theory of incognizant racism posits that journalists cover the White community differently than communities of color, and the study's results indicate that this difference is also reflected in the choice and use of on-camera sources in network news stories. A quantitative content analysis of network news programs in 2005 revealed that Whites dominated television news coverage, comprising more than three quarters of sources. Nearly 90% of network news reporters were also White. Elite sources such as experts, company spokespeople, and government officials were overwhelmingly White, whereas minority sources appeared most often as private individuals or ordinary citizens. In addition, White sources clearly dominated all story topics, with a majority presence in every case, except for foreign affairs stories in which foreign sources made up the bulk of sound bites. Minority sources were scattered more sparingly across story topics, barely making a showing in some, such as stories about science/technology, ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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