Race and news : critical perspectives /

Race and news : critical perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Campbell, Christopher P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Subjects:
Racism in the press > United States.
Race relations and the press > United States.
African Americans > Press coverage.
Mass media and race relations > United States.
Television broadcasting of news > Political aspects > United States.
Journalism > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
Journalism > Objectivity > United States.
United States > Race relations > Press coverage.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Race and the journalistic routine. Yes we did? : race, myth and the news revisited / by Christopher Campbell, Kim LeDuff & Rockell Brown
  • Newsroom diversity and representations of race / by Cheryl D. Jenkins
  • National news coverage of race in the era of Obama / by Kim M. LeDuff
  • "New" news, hegemony and representations of Black male athletes / by Rockell Brown, Reynaldo Anderson and Jason Thompson
  • From the water cooler to the World Wide Web : race and audience commentary on news stories on-line / by Kim LeDuff and Robin Kauth
  • Ethnic news media and marginalization : African-American newspaper coverage of the AIDS crisis / by Rockell Brown
  • Covering race : contemporary case studies. Simple incivility or outright racism? how newspapers covered Joe Wilson's outburst during Obama's congressional health care address / by Kim LeDuff
  • The real price of oppression: Fox news coverage of the Virginia Tech shooter / by Kim LeDuff
  • "Nappy-headed hos" : media framing, blame shifting and the controversy over Don Imus' pejorative language / by Hazel James Cole and Cheryl D. Jenkins
  • Recoding New Orleans : news, race, representation and Spike Lee's When the levees broke / by Christopher Campbell and Kim LeDuff
  • Localizing terror, creating fear in post 9/11 local TV news / by Kim M. LeDuff
  • Race and objectivity : toward a critical approach to news consumption / by Cheryl D. Jenkins and Donyale Padgett
  • Afterword : re-thinking the news : how American journalism can improve coverage of race and racism.