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- Title
REPORTING CRIME AND JUSTICE IN THE PRESS.
- Authors
Meyer Jr., John C.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the trend in reporting crime and justice in the press in the U.S. To examine whether there were quantitative differences between the crime reporting styles of the periodical "The New York Times" and the "The New York Daily News." These newspapers were chosen, in part, because they have been cited as having discrepant styles in such matters, 37 crime stories that were published between August and October 1970, were randomly selected and content analyzed. In all, 74 stories were analyzed by enumerating each informational bit that dealt with the crime, the offender, and any actions taken by authorities in the processing of the case. An examination of the data for these three elements showed there to be few quantitative differences between the two newspapers. Each of the papers devoted nearly half of the total number of information bits per story to reporting the details of the crime itself. The News had a slight edge over the Times, but this difference does not approach practical or statistical significance. In reporting information of the offender, the News devoted of its space to the Times' a difference that again is not large enough to be significant.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CRIME &; the press; FREE press &; fair trial; NEW York Times, The (Newspaper); NEW York Daily News, The (Newspaper); MASS media
- Publication
Criminology, 1976, Vol 14, Issue 2, p277
- ISSN
0011-1384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1976.tb00019.x