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- Title
Anger, Fear, and the Racialization of News Media Coverage of Protest Activity.
- Authors
Gause, LaGina; Moore, Steven T.; Ostfeld, Mara Cecilia
- Abstract
Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party are among the many movements that have reignited media attention to protest activity. Yet, there is much to learn about what this media coverage conveys. In particular, how much does who is protesting matter for how the media portray protesters and their objectives? In this paper, we draw on an extensive content analysis of cable and broadcast news media coverage of protest activities to demonstrate substantial differences in how protests are covered depending on the race and objective of the protesters. We find that media are much more likely to depict protests by people of color using language that evokes a sense of threat by using anger- and fear-laden language than comparable coverage of protest activity involving mostly White individuals. Our results demonstrate that racial biases in news coverage are much broader than previously thought. In doing so, our work highlights the powerful role that a protester's race plays in whether the media will condone or challenge their political voice.
- Subjects
OCCUPY Wall Street protest movement; PUBLIC demonstrations; RACIALIZATION; BLACK Lives Matter movement; RACE; BROADCAST journalism
- Publication
Journal of Race, Ethnicity & Politics, 2023, Vol 8, Issue 3, p446
- ISSN
2056-6085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rep.2023.27