Question | Answer |
Ditton and Duffy | found that 46% of media reports were about violent or sexual crime, yet only 3% of crime reported by the police |
Felson | The age fallacy The dramatic fallacy The ingenuity fallacy |
Williams and Dickinson | The media overplay the extraordinary |
Schlesinger and Tumbler | Media attention moved from murder in the 60's to drugs terrorism and mugging in the 90's |
Soothill and Walby | Reporting of rape has increased and offenders represented as psychopathic strangers |
Stan Cohen | A story becomes newsworthy because of certain values; 1. immediacy 2. dramatization 3. personalisation 4. higher status person or celebrity 5. simplification 6. novelty or unexpectedness 7. risk 8. violence |
Mandel | so many crime thrillers are sold yearly that people confuse fiction and non-fiction |
Surette | fictional crime and non fictional crime "rules of opposites" |
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