Total stories linked to on the page related to crime,
policing, or criminal justice:
FOX NEWS- 6/14
CNN NEWS- 2/7
According
to Chermak, the total percent of story by type of news story table shows that 10.6%
are news stories related to crime. I believe the percentage is probably true but
it can’t be applied for all newspapers. It depends on the day and the newspaper,
for instance, FOX News reached almost 43% in crime news on Sunday, while CNN
reached 33.3% on the same day.
The kind of crime stories I see in FOX news are
mostly homicide crimes. It is interesting that three out of the six crime
stories are related to police brutality. Eric Garner’s case, raised awareness
of police brutality and media is now closely following similar cases. Police
brutality has been elevated to national news coverage because it is something
of highly significance and it happens all over the nation. In this case,
prominence made that kind of story elevate to national news coverage.
Chermak
says in order for a crime to become news, there first must be an official
acknowledgment of it by a criminal justice source. In the three California jail
guards arrested for murder in the death of an inmate case, the criminal justice
sources were the Santa Clara County sheriff. Reliance is really important, and
it is important that sources are socially accepted to be reliable. The
California jail guards’ case included the doctor who examined the dead body as
a source. It also included a former girlfriend of the inmate.
In the
arrest of two brothers in a knife attack against parents’ case, the primary
sources include the police, their neighbor and one of the victims. In Chermak
chart, the police is the most used source with almost 30% and victims are 3.6%.
Hi Agueda. Good work here. You could spend a little more time explaining Chermak's argument about why a reliance on police sources can limit the kinds of crime narratives that media tells, but all in all, this is solid work. Keep it up.
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