Good Guys Are Still Always in White? Positive Change and Continued Misrepresentation of Race and Crime on Local Television News

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 775-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis L. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Race And Crime ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Racial Representations ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
News Programs

A content analysis of a random sample of Los Angeles television news programs was used to assess racial representations of perpetrators, victims, and officers. A series of comparisons were used to assess whether local news depictions differed from outside indicators of social reality. In a significant departure from prior research, they revealed that perpetration was accurately depicted on local TV news. Blacks, in particular, were accurately depicted as perpetrators, victims, and officers. However, although Latinos were accurately depicted as perpetrators, they continued to be underrepresented as victims and officers. Conversely, Whites remained significantly overrepresented as victims and officers. The implications of these findings are discussed in light of incognizant racism, ethnic blame discourse, structural limitations, and the guard dog perspective of news media.

Contextual Coverage of Government by Local Television News

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Bernstein ◽  
Stephen Lacy
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Television News ◽  
Marketplace Of Ideas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Market ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Small Market ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Local Television News

This content analysis of 14 local television news operations in five markets looks at how local TV news shows contribute to the marketplace of ideas. Performance was measured as the allocation of stories to types of coverage that provide the context about events and issues confronting the public. Overall, just under a third of the stories dealt with a government entity, and commentaries accounted for only about 1% of all stories. Small-market stations provided less contextual information than did large-market stations, which in general provided more in-depth coverage.

scholarly journals Audiovisual infotainment in European news: A comparative content analysis of Dutch, Spanish, and Irish television news programs

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 1534-1551
Author(s):  
Amanda Alencar ◽  
Sanne Kruikemeier
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Television News ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
News Reports ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
News Programs

This study investigates to what extent audiovisual infotainment features can be found in the narrative structure of television news in three European countries. Content analysis included a sample of 639 news reports aired in the first 3 weeks of September 2013, in six prime-time TV news broadcasts of Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands. It was found that Spain and Ireland included more technical features of infotainment in television news compared to the Netherlands. Also, the use of infotainment techniques is more often present in commercial, than in public broadcasting. Finally, the findings indicate no clear pattern of the use of infotainment techniques across news topics as coded in this study.

Visual materials on local television news programs

1963 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-232
Author(s):  
Gale R. Adkins ◽  
Peter Haggart
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
News Programs

scholarly journals Tuning in: Does TV news influence the political process in Fiji?

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Hermanson
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Agenda Setter ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
History Of

Local television news programmes in Fiji have been the most watched programmes for the entire 13-year history of broadcast television in the country. Although survey polls consistently show that television news is extremely popular, the influence it may have due to its popularity has not previously been investigated. This article is based on a study examining the influence that television news programmes have on communities in Fiji. The study shows that the influence of TV news is complex and is interwoven with cultural, economic and political contexts. Findings for the study indicate television news is not only an influential source of information, but that it is also an agenda setter for Fiji public opinion. The research conducted indicates that television news influenced people in Fiji before the 2006 general election. While this influence did not necessarily change the way people voted, it may have helped set the political agenda. Television news may not only be informing the public about forces that shape their lives, but it may be a shaping force itself.

In Step at the Top? Optimism, Efficacy, and Orientation Among Local Television News Managers

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-213
Author(s):  
Justin C. Blankenship ◽  
Daniel Riffe
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
White Male ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industry Analysis ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Upper Management ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
News Industry

A quantitative survey of local television news directors in the United States ( N = 159) explored three main topics: the perception/attitudes of current local TV news directors, potential differences in those attitudes by market size, and whether news directors felt “in step” with their staff and/or upper management. The results indicated that the majority of news directors are still White, male, and middle-aged. News directors see a strong connection between news product quality and resources devoted to news. News directors were also, overall, pessimistic about the future of the TV news industry. Analysis indicated that there were few differences among the news directors working in large, medium, and small markets. Further, news directors reported being somewhat “out-of-step” with their staff and management regarding profit and market orientation.

Empty Heartland: The Absent Regions on New Zealand Television

2005 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Susan Fountaine ◽  
Margie Comrie ◽  
Christine Cheyne
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Television News ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Government ◽  
Air Channels ◽  
News Programs ◽  
New Zealanders

Each night, two-thirds of New Zealanders tune into prime-time national news on free-to-air channels TV One and TV3. This paper argues, however, that viewers get a very limited view of their nation on the box. While the archetypal Kiwi identity reflects ties to ‘the land’ and accompanying values of self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, television news is preoccupied with urban happenings, and tells heartland stories from a city perspective. Content analysis shows overseas stories are a third of network news, and well over half of the rest comes from Auckland and Wellington. Regional coverage is largely restricted to crime or human interest, and there is an absence of rural news. Since 1990, New Zealanders have had no regional news programs to fill these gaps. The government has, until recently, reneged on funding promises for local television, relying instead on TVNZ's charter objective to ‘reflect the regions to the nation’. The paper considers the success of this policy, and its implications for the heartland and national identity.

Blacks in the News: Television, Modern Racism and Cultural Change

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Entman
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Television News ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Television Journalists ◽  
News Programs

Local news may be one vehicle through which television helps, inadvertently, both to preserve and to transform cultural values. Content analysis on the evening news on four Chicago television stations over a lengthy period suggests local television responds to viewing tastes of black audiences. However, data on these Chicago television news programs suggest racism still may be indirectly encouraged by normal crime and political coverage that depict blacks, in crime, as more physically threatening and, in politics, as more demanding than comparable white activists or leaders. Ironically, widespread employment of black television journalists suggests to viewers that racial discrimination is no longer a significant social problem. The mix of these two views of blacks encourages modern white racism—hostility, rejection and denial toward black aspirations—the study argues.

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