Book: White News: Why Local News Programs Don't Cover People of Color

The objective of this article is to analyze the speech used in the local news programs in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, and in Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco, in order to verify how it is characterized. For this, speech samples were collected from three reporters native to the capital of Pará, as well as three news presenters and two reporters native to the capital of Pernambuco, using videos made available on the Internet to verify if they use the characteristics of their dialects or if they meet a standard norm of telejournalistic discourse. It starts from the hypothesis that some of these characteristics are smoothed or erased as an attempt to regularize or normalize them and thus try to follow a pattern of pronunciation of more prestigious forms in Brazilian Portuguese. From the realization of the research, attempts to neutralize the dialectal features of the speech of Belém and Recife were verified, based on the statements of the professionals analyzed. However, in Belém, the smoothing of the dialectal features doesn't come to be predominant, already in Recife the neutralization of the dialectal features is much more frequente.

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The Biased Truth

Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-4059-5.ch011 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 185-198

Author(s):

Andre Nicholson

Keyword(s):

Exploratory Study ◽

Local News ◽

News Stories ◽

News Programs

Consumers of news should expect to consume reports, which are an accurate and unbiased reflection of local, national, and world events. However, due to limitations that affect the packaging and presentation of many news stories today, consumers may not be experiencing a true reflection of those issues. This exploratory study examined three genres of news for objectivity and bias in the reporting of news stores: local news, national news, and satire news. The study found that although local news reporters attempt to report news stories with an objective narrative, it is often the news story's subject that impedes the process of objectivity. National and satire news programs also lose their objectivity based on the narrative presented by the hosts of the program.

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The Biased Truth

Journalism and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8359-2.ch007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 97-110

Author(s):

Andre Nicholson

Keyword(s):

Exploratory Study ◽

Local News ◽

News Stories ◽

News Programs

Consumers of news should expect to consume reports, which are an accurate and unbiased reflection of local, national, and world events. However, due to limitations that affect the packaging and presentation of many news stories today, consumers may not be experiencing a true reflection of those issues. This exploratory study examined three genres of news for objectivity and bias in the reporting of news stores: local news, national news, and satire news. The study found that although local news reporters attempt to report news stories with an objective narrative, it is often the news story's subject that impedes the process of objectivity. National and satire news programs also lose their objectivity based on the narrative presented by the hosts of the program.

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Audience Selectivity of Local Television Newscasts

Journalism Quarterly ◽

10.1177/107769909206900211 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 69 (2) ◽

pp. 373-382 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Carolyn A. Lin

Keyword(s):

Telephone Survey ◽

Television News ◽

Local News ◽

Local Television ◽

Sports Programs ◽

Carry Over ◽

News Programs ◽

Carry Over Effect

Audiences make television news choices based on several factors, such as liking the newscaster, the content and scope of news programs, or from the carry-over effect of the preceding or following programs. Here, evaluation of the anchor person appeared to be most important in picking a weather program, less important for selected news and sports programs. Viewers reported that quality and scope of local news also drew them to particular programs. Findings are based on a telephone survey.

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Local News and National Politics

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055418000965 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 113 (2) ◽

pp. 372-384 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

GREGORY J. MARTIN ◽

JOSHUA McCRAIN

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Local Politics ◽

Supply Side ◽

Local News ◽

National Politics ◽

Local Television ◽

The Us ◽

Media Markets ◽

News Programs

The level of journalistic resources dedicated to coverage of local politics is in a long-term decline in the US news media, with readership shifting to national outlets. We investigate whether this trend is demand- or supply-driven, exploiting a recent wave of local television station acquisitions by a conglomerate owner. Using extensive data on local news programming and viewership, we find that the ownership change led to (1) substantial increases in coverage of national politics at the expense of local politics, (2) a significant rightward shift in the ideological slant of coverage, and (3) a small decrease in viewership, all relative to the changes at other news programs airing in the same media markets. These results suggest a substantial supply-side role in the trends toward nationalization and polarization of politics news, with negative implications for accountability of local elected officials and mass polarization.

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Sustaining Systemic Racism Through Psychological Gaslighting: Denials of Racial Profiling and Justifications of Carding by Police Utilizing Local News Media

Race and Justice ◽

10.1177/2153368718760969 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 424-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Heston Tobias ◽

Ameil Joseph

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Racial Profiling ◽

Psychological Abuse ◽

People Of Color ◽

Local News ◽

Police Service ◽

Police Services ◽

Local Media ◽

Media Discourses ◽

Local News Media

This article examines Police Services and local media discourses on street checks in Hamilton, Ontario, from June 2015 to April 2016 and their usage as a form of psychological abuse known as gaslighting. Despite the widespread coverage that the Hamilton Police Service received as a result of being linked to systemic racist practices, a year later, the Hamilton Police Service was able to avoid being implicated in deliberately conducting racial profiling through strategic tactics in the discourse they relied upon and presented in the media. Through an analysis of 27 local news media articles on the topic of street checks, it is argued that the Police Services and local media discourse enact gaslighting, a form of psychological abuse that is used to manipulate object(s) in order to deceive and undermine the credibility of the target. The psychological effects of gaslighting on people of color included a sense of alienation, disenfranchisement from the community, and distrust toward the police. Through a case study application, it is suggested that gaslighting is part of a systemic, historical process of racism that has been used by the police and government organizations to both illegally target people of color and deny complicity in racial profiling.

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