Negative perception of blacks rises with more news watching, studies say
Significantly, the effect was independent of viewers’ existing racial attitudes, Dixon said. “We’ve shown that just watching the news – just news consumption alone – has an impact on one’s stereotypical conceptions,” he said.
In other words, even among those who may think of themselves as largely prejudice-free, those who watch more local or network news are prone to more often see blacks as intimidating, violent or poor, Dixon said.
The studies were published in successive March and June issues of the Journal of Communication. Each was based on data collected in a telephone survey of 506 Los Angeles County residents conducted from November 2002 through January 2003.
In related research, Dixon also is working on studies about stereotyping in the news coverage of Hurricane Katrina and of terrorism.
The study on local news, published in the March issue, built on prior research in several cities – Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles among them – showing local TV news, particularly crime news, as almost always “racialized” in its portrayal of blacks and often other groups, Dixon said. One of the Los Angeles studies, conducted in the mid- to late 1990s, was led by Dixon, and analyzed the news content of individual stations.
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Errr……so the problem is the news - not the FACT that Blacks actually, in reality, commit a vast amount of real world crime. FAR and AWAY beyong their numbers.
God Forbid the General Population finds out about the actual, factual, real-world Nature of Black criminality, and protects themselves from Black Predators. That would be just awful!!! So unfair to Balck criminals!!! After all - it’s far, far, better to be raped, attacked, robbed, beaten, and murdered by Blacks, than to be a “racist”?
Right?
RIGHT?
All you have to do is check out the “Fact” section on chimpout.com for documented proof that blacks commit the vast majority of crime.
Blacks are the most racist creatures on the earth…they discriminate against themselves and others…but…that is changing. We’ve seen the underside and it isn’t pretty and now divisions are being made where the should have been all along.
Vote in November for anyone other than a black and we’ll be just fine….
Do a google search for “Lifetime Likelihood of Going to State or Federal Prison”. The first search result will take to the Department of Justice website where they note:
“At current levels of incarceration newborn black males in this country have a greater than a 1 in 4 chance of going to prison during their lifetimes, while Hispanic males have a 1 in 6 chance, and white males have a 1 in 23 chance of serving time.”
Perception vs. reality seems right in this case.