tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87572144640422524162024-03-18T05:47:49.811-04:00Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal JusticeThe official blog associated with the book, Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice!Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.comBlogger1017125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-8205944275166478562018-08-21T08:46:00.001-04:002018-08-21T08:46:38.056-04:00Hey look at what is in the news!!!<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>As noted in the book, certain types of crimes tend to "sell" more than others.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>When crimes fit certain themes and
contain certain narratives, you can expect them to be covered nearly
everywhere. Consider this recent example from CNN and Fox News, who
rarely have the same lead story!</b></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/us/colorado-chris-watts-court/index.html"><span class="cd__headline-text"><strong>He pleaded for family's return. Now he's expected in court to face murder charges</strong></span></a><span class="cd__headline-text"><strong> </strong></span></h3>
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<span class="cd__headline-text"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Also in the news are these bizarre stories ... maybe you should wonder why such stories are newsworthy in the first place???</span></strong></span></h3>
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<a data-adv="hp1bt" data-omtr-intcmp="hp1bt4" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/20/picture-snoozing-chicago-cops-goes-viral-after-violent-weekend.html"><source media="(min-width: 320px)"></source><source media="(min-width: 1439px)"></source><img alt="Pic of snoozing Chicago cops goes viral after another bloody weekend" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/hp.foxnews.com/images/2018/08/1024/576/eff61c2009f209ae8e884c2f5aa5b784.jpg?tl=1&ve=1" /></a><div class="kicker">
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</article>Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-21282278428535017782017-11-02T08:31:00.000-04:002017-11-02T08:31:03.432-04:00When the President actually doesn't know what he is talking aboutYesterday President Donald Trump said:<br />
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1) "We need quick justice and we need strong justice -- much quicker
and much stronger than we have right now. Because what we have right now
is a joke and it's a laughingstock. And no wonder so much of this stuff
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2) "We also have to come up with punishment that's
far quicker and far greater than the punishment these animals are
getting right now. They'll go through court for years. And at the end,
they'll be -- who knows what happens."<br />
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What is the contradiction? Can you find it?<br />
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And then, there is this: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/fact-check-trump-terror-convictions.html">The evidence</a>.<br />
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-14903279169933742242017-10-31T13:43:00.000-04:002017-10-31T13:43:19.866-04:00Why is this news?Seriously, please explain how these stories count as being NEWSWORTHY?<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/asia/japan-body-parts-cooler/index.html"><span class="cd__headline-text">Body parts found in cooler; man arrested </span></a></h3>
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/10/30/12-year-old-suicide-attempt-kills-driver-overpass-orig-vstop-aa.wjla"><span class="cd__headline-text">12-year-old jumps off overpass, kills driver</span></a></h3>
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/health/black-licorice-overdose-trnd/index.html"><span class="cd__headline-text">Don't accidentally overdose on black licorice this Halloween, the FDA warns</span></a></h3>
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<span class="cd__headline-text"></span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/health/indiana-mom-overdose-photo-trnd/index.html"><span class="cd__headline-text"><strong>What happened after police took this photo of a mom overdosing</strong></span></a></h3>
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<span class="cd__headline-text"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/30/las-vegas-shooting-california-couple-that-survived-attack-die-in-car-crash.html">California couple that survived Vegas attack die in car crash</a> </span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/31/texas-mom-44-arrested-for-sex-with-her-daughters-teenage-boyfriend-cops-say.html">Texas mom, 44, had sex with daughter’s teen boyfriend, police say</a></h2>
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<a data-adv="hp1bt" data-omtr-intcmp="hp1bt5_1" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/11/baltimore-teacher-sex-case-spanish-instructor-left-during-daytime-hours-to-record-sex-act-with-student.html">Baltimore teacher sex case: Spanish instructor left during daytime hours to record sex act with student</a> </h2>
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-41305526736217519152017-10-03T08:32:00.000-04:002017-10-03T08:32:00.167-04:00Worse mass shooting in contemporary American historyIf there is one thing we can be sure of, when the worse mass shooting in contemporary American history occurs, it will be news.<br />
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In reviewing how this horrible event is being covered by the media, we see some pretty typical and predictable elements in their stories. For example, there are tributes to the "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooting-victims/index.html">naive and innocent victims</a>."<br />
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And there are stories about the "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/10/03/las-vegas-shooting-heroism-savidge-pkg.cnn">heroes</a>" that helped save the day.<br />
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CNN has a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-attack-visual-tic-toc-trnd/index.html">minute by minute account</a>. And a look into the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/us/mandalay-bay-hotel-room-what-we-know/index.html">gunman's perch</a>.<br />
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Fox has a story featuring the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/03/las-vegas-massacre-remembering-fallen.html">victims </a>and this: <a data-adv="hp1bt" data-omtr-intcmp="hp1bt1_2" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/5596491087001/">Stories of heroism emerge following deadly Vegas shooting</a>. And of course, they use this to attack a Democrat (duh):<a data-adv="hp1bt" data-omtr-intcmp="hp1bt3" href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/02/gregg-jarrett-las-vegas-shooting-uninformed-hillary-shamelessly-politicizes-nevada-tragedy.html"> Hillary Clinton shamelessly politicizes Las Vegas massacre</a>.<br />
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And of course, both have lots of video where you can watch the shooting happen. How sick is that?<br />
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I wonder how long it will take to face the reality of what is undeniably behind this--the presence of far too many guns in our society. Consider this, from the Washington Post: <br />
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Don't believe it has to do with the guns? Read this and tell me why!?!?!?! <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/us-gun-violence-statistics-maps-charts">Gun violence in America, explained in 17 maps and charts</a></div>
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Yes, it has begun, the media questioning of why Congress does nothing. This from the New York Times:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/02/opinion/editorials/mass-shootings-congress.html"> 477 Days. 521 Mass Shootings. Zero Action From Congress.</a></div>
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We just have to accept that, we simply don't care. I personally knew this was true when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting">20 six and seven year olds had their heads and faces blown off in an elementary school in 2012.</a> Even that didn't cause us to do anything. And so this just keeps happening, over and over and over and over and ...</div>
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-32508615568349658022017-09-19T12:49:00.001-04:002017-09-19T12:49:14.545-04:00Frames and narrativesIn class today you'll learn about frames and narratives used by the media to tell stories about crime.<br />
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What frames and narratives identified in class and in your book do you see in these stories from today, if any?<br />
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<a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/09/18/state-police-stop-patrols-atv-high-crime-detroit-precinct/105772908/">http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/09/18/state-police-stop-patrols-atv-high-crime-detroit-precinct/105772908/</a><br />
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<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/18/westchester-police-cyber-crime-dog/">http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/18/westchester-police-cyber-crime-dog/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hate-crime-rise-2016-united-states-trump_us_59becac8e4b086432b07fed8">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hate-crime-rise-2016-united-states-trump_us_59becac8e4b086432b07fed8</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/candidates-at-mayoral-debate-focus-on-crime-addiction/article_b1c09a67-a7f1-5f23-ae72-3837b7af7ce8.html">http://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/candidates-at-mayoral-debate-focus-on-crime-addiction/article_b1c09a67-a7f1-5f23-ae72-3837b7af7ce8.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/news/crime-up-percent-deen-says/article_ad5b68bc-9ce2-11e7-b4ab-e7b83f759c08.html">http://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/news/crime-up-percent-deen-says/article_ad5b68bc-9ce2-11e7-b4ab-e7b83f759c08.html</a><br />
<br />Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-20889565332223598552017-09-14T08:18:00.001-04:002017-09-14T08:18:53.752-04:00What do you NEED to know today?You think it would be in the news then, right?<br />
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So, CNN has "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/14/us/five-things-september-14-trnd/index.html">5 things you need to know today</a>." One of the stories is:<br />
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"At least 2<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/asia/malaysia-school-fire/index.html" target="_blank">1 children and two teachers were killed</a>
when a fire broke out at a school in Kuala Lumpur. Witnesses reported
hearing cries for help from inside the burning building and seeing
children unable to escape because of metal grills on windows.
Renovations to the building had reportedly blocked a fire
exit. Officials are examining whether an electric short circuit caused
the fire."<br />
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Ask yourself, where is Kuala Lumpur? You probably don't even know, so why is this news in the US? And why is it one of five things you NEED to know today?<br />
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Perhaps for the same reason this is a top story?<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/14/health/florida-nursing-home-irma/index.html"><span class="cd__headline-text"><strong>Investigations launched after Florida nursing home deaths</strong></span></a><span class="cd__headline-text"><strong> </strong></span></h3>
What do these victims have in common with the kids from the other story? And also with the child in this story?<br />
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<a class="rec-link" href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/europe/family-volcano-death-italy-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool" rel="" target="_self" title="Boy falls into a volcanic crater in Italy">Boy falls into a volcanic crater in Italy</a><br />
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Meanwhile, over at Fox News, these are two of the top stories today. Each has other stories "linked" ot it, even though the other stories are in no way related!<br />
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</article>Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-48326757600318188812017-09-12T13:59:00.000-04:002017-09-12T13:59:05.580-04:00Stories NOT really in the mainstream newsBrought to you by Truthout, a liberal non-profit media organization.<br />
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<a class="moduleItemTitle" href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41915-will-the-courts-save-the-dreamers">Will the Courts Save the Dreamers?</a></h3>
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By Marjorie Cohn, <a href="http://truth-out.org/">Truthout</a> | News Analysis
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<span class="wf_caption" style="display: block; max-width: 640px; width: 100%;"><img alt="Thousands of immigrants and supporters join the Defend DACA March to oppose the President Trump order to end DACA on September 10, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: David McNew / Getty Images)" src="http://www.truth-out.org/images/Images_2017_09/2017_0912vf_.jpg" style="width: 100%;" width="640" /><span style="display: block; margin-top: 3px; text-align: left;">Thousands
of immigrants and supporters join the Defend DACA March to oppose the
President Trump order to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program on September 10, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: David
McNew / Getty Images)</span></span><br />
With 17 states filing two lawsuits over Trump's DACA rescission, it
is more likely that the fate of the Dreamers will be decided in the US
Supreme Court rather than in Congress, which would have to defy years of
history to agree on comprehensive immigration reform. But if Trump gets
to appoint one more justice to the court, DACA may well be struck down.<br />
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<a class="moduleItemTitle" href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41888-9-11-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-us-empire-project">Dahr Jamail | 9/11: The Beginning of the End of the US Empire Project</a>
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<b>So, why would these stories NOT be found in the news?</b></div>
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-71516150739792349062017-09-05T08:35:00.003-04:002017-09-05T08:35:58.997-04:00Why is THIS news?Among the top stories in the news today is this headline from CNN:<br />
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<a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2731405-alabama-assistant-mike-locksleys-son-meiko-shot-and-killed-at-age-25?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial">Son of Alabama assistant coach shot and killed</a><br />
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Why is this shooting news when other gun murders happened dozens of times over the weekend?<br />
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It could be because Alabama is the number 1 team in the nation? And because their first game this year was the most watched opening game ever? That is <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2731344-fsu-vs-alabama-nets-125m-viewers-most-watched-cfb-kickoff-weekend-game?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial">CNN's story just below the one about the shooting</a>.<br />
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Then, there is this story about a police officer during a DUI stop telling a white woman, "<a class="rec-link" data-video-id="us/2017/09/01/georgia-police-officer-tells-woman-we-only-kill-black-people-orig-trnd-lab.cnn" href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/09/01/georgia-police-officer-tells-woman-we-only-kill-black-people-orig-trnd-lab.cnn?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool" rel="" target="_self" title="Cop: Remember, we only kill black people">Remember, we only kill black people."</a><br />
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Meanwhile, over at Fox News, one of the lead stories is this one:<br />
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<a data-omtr-intcmp="hpbt3" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/ohio-news-photographer-reportedly-shot-by-deputy-while-setting-up-to-take-pictures-traffic-stop.html"></a><br />
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<a data-omtr-intcmp="hpbt3" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/ohio-news-photographer-reportedly-shot-by-deputy-while-setting-up-to-take-pictures-traffic-stop.html">'JUST DOING MY JOB'<br /> Report: News photographer shot by cop at traffic stop</a></h3>
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And this! <br />
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<a data-adv="latestnews" data-omtr-intcmp="hplnws8" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/man-tied-to-500m-art-heist-to-be-sentenced-in-separate-case.html">Man tied to $500M heist faces jail in separate case</a><br />
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Here the news show they don't know the difference between prison and jail! Wow!<br />
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So, why are these stories NEWS?<br />
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</span>Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-66771043147517272782017-08-31T08:24:00.001-04:002017-08-31T08:24:08.486-04:00In the news todayAmong the leading stories in the news today from mainstream, inner-ring or upper-tier media outlets, are these nuggets:<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/08/29/girl-kidnapped-thrown-from-bridge-orig-vstan.cnn"><span class="cd__headline-text">Kidnapped 7-year-old thrown from bridge</span></a> </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2729272-broken-hoop-dreams-where-did-it-go-wrong-for-former-phenom-sebastian-telfair?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial">NBA bust facing 15 years in prison for major gun charges</a></b><br />
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<b><a data-adv="latestnews" data-omtr-intcmp="hplnws2" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/31/knife-wielding-man-in-stockholm-stabs-police-officer-in-neck-police-say.html">Knife-wielding man in Stockholm stabs police officer in neck, officials say</a> </b><br />
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<b><a data-adv="latestnews" data-omtr-intcmp="hplnws3" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/31/gunshot-victim-wasnt-burglar-corpus-christi-police-say.html">Corpus Christi police: Gunshot victim wasn't burglar</a></b><br />
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Why are these stories "top news" stories? How many of them are things you really NEED to know? Why do they appeal to the news organizations?<b> </b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-47938586108535520902017-08-29T09:01:00.002-04:002017-08-29T09:01:37.110-04:00President Trump reverses Obama order, allowing local police to have military weaponsFrom the Washington Post:<br />
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"President Donald Trump plans to resume the transfer of surplus weapons,
vehicles and other equipment from the nation’s military to its state and
local law enforcement agencies, reviving a program that was sharply
curtailed by President Barack Obama two years ago. The program launched
in 1990 but was greatly limited after public reaction to images of
heavily militarized police in the streets of Ferguson, Mo., and other
sites of civil unrest."<br />Source: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/08/27/trump-restores-program-sending-surplus-military-weapons-equipment-to-police/?utm_term=.5218ecc20d3c">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/08/27/trump-restores-program-sending-surplus-military-weapons-equipment-to-police/?utm_term=.5218ecc20d3c</a><br />
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You might think this is a good idea. You might think it is a bad idea. What do the "experts" think? And which experts are being interviewed?<br />
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In chapter 1 of your book, it is argued that these kinds of stories often feature the voices of police and politicians. Is that what you see in these news articles on the story?<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+military+weapons+law+enforcement&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiel8a8vvzVAhXJTSYKHdV7Bt4Q_AUICigB&biw=1064&bih=561&dpr=1.58">https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+military+weapons+law+enforcement&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiel8a8vvzVAhXJTSYKHdV7Bt4Q_AUICigB&biw=1064&bih=561&dpr=1.58</a><br />
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-1960305107656433022017-08-22T08:36:00.000-04:002017-08-22T08:36:06.645-04:00The importance of alternative news<b>As you will see in the book, the mainstream media are owned by for-profit corporations, and as a result, many important stories are either downplayed or ignored altogether.</b><br />
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<b>Here are a few examples that are found today on the news website, Truthout, but not mainstream media outlets:</b><br />
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<a class="moduleItemTitle" href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41673-doctors-warm-to-single-payer-health-care">Doctors Warm to Single-Payer Health Care</a></h3>
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By Rachel Bluth, <a href="http://khn.org/news/doctors-warm-to-single-payer-health-care/" target="_blank">Kaiser Health News</a> | News Analysis
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Single-payer health care is still a controversial idea in the US, but
a majority of physicians are moving to support it, a new survey finds.
Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong support or were
somewhat supportive of a single-payer health system, according to the
survey by Merritt Hawkins, a physician recruitment firm.<br />
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<a class="moduleItemImage" href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41671-renegotiating-nafta-will-only-serve-the-rich-just-like-it-always-has" title="Continue reading "Renegotiating NAFTA Will Only Serve the Rich -- Just Like It Always Has"">
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<a class="moduleItemTitle" href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41671-renegotiating-nafta-will-only-serve-the-rich-just-like-it-always-has">Renegotiating NAFTA Will Only Serve the Rich -- Just Like It Always Has</a></h3>
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By David L. Wilson, <a href="http://truth-out.org/">Truthout</a> | Op-Ed
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Both Donald Trump and his neoliberal opponents seem to agree that
NAFTA has been good for Mexicans, but in reality, the pact caused Mexico
to lose millions of jobs, especially in the agricultural sector, and
resulted in a sharp increase in migration to the US. If NAFTA is
renewed, it will continue to benefit transnational corporate moguls
rather than workers.<br />
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By Jeff Bryant, <a href="https://ourfuture.org/20170811/betsy-devoss-school-choice-looks-more-like-crony-capitalism?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak" target="_blank">Campaign for America's Future</a> | Op-Ed </div>
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<a class="moduleItemTitle" href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41643-trump-tv-how-the-sinclair-merger-would-move-media-further-right">"Trump TV": How the Sinclair Merger Would Move Media Further Right</a></h3>
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By Janine Jackson, <a href="http://fair.org/home/this-is-a-company-that-is-essentially-producing-trump-tv/" target="_blank">FAIR</a> | Interview </div>
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-42171498213523422202017-07-11T07:34:00.001-04:002017-07-11T07:34:57.422-04:00Wanna see bias in action?<h4>
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/politics/donald-trump-jr-natalia-veselnitskaya/index.html"><span class="cd__headline-text"><strong>Report: Email to Trump Jr. said lawyer would give info on Clinton from Russian government, sources say</strong></span><span class="cd__headline-icon"></span></a></h3>
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/politics/donald-trump-russia-controversies-dominate-again/index.html"><span class="cd__headline-text">Amid health care push, White House can't shake Russia</span><span class="cd__headline-icon"></span></a></h3>
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-30156216954375391752017-03-27T10:38:00.000-04:002017-03-27T10:38:03.312-04:00What is terrorism?Ah ha! Finally a media story, albeit an op-ed, about the power to define.<br />
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As noted in the book, it is lawmakers who get to decide what is crime and what is not, what drugs are harmful and which are not, and what is terrorism and what is not. Here is an opinion piece about this issue. Do you agree or not? And why?<br />
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-71787041355682558182017-02-26T15:12:00.001-05:002017-02-26T15:12:51.507-05:00New edition coming out soon!<b>Hi readers!</b><br />
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I've taken some time off the blog but since a new edition of the book is coming out soon, I will be blogging again soon about top stories in the news and entertainment as they related to crime and criminal justice.<br />
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You can register to comment on this site and interact with me. And you can also use the search box to examine what has been blogged about here in the past. Just enter any term and hit search!Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-2093257376530401592015-01-20T19:35:00.001-05:002015-01-20T19:35:45.305-05:00Temporarily closed for revisionsStay tuned folks!Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-90957037361769909362014-10-07T18:04:00.000-04:002014-10-07T18:04:06.957-04:00Media setting up the case for ground forces in Iraq againCase in point:<br />
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-18275859992052826252014-10-06T10:59:00.000-04:002014-10-06T10:59:47.385-04:00Here is why corporate ownership of the media matters!From Alternet today:<br />
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The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the "hard news"
stories the media has a responsibility to report. But the
business-oriented press generally avoids them.<br /><br /><strong>1. U.S. Wealth Up $34 Trillion Since Recession. 93% of You Got Almost None of It.</strong><br /><br />That's
an average of $100,000 for every American. But the people who already
own most of the stocks took almost all of it. For them, the average gain
was well over a million dollars, tax-free as long as they don't cash it
in. Details available <a href="http://www.usagainstgreed.org/20140407_Analysis.txt" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><strong>2. Eight Rich Americans Made More Than 3.6 Million Minimum-Wage Workers</strong><br /><br />A recent <a href="http://nlihc.org/oor/2014" target="_blank">report</a> stated
that no full-time minimum wage worker in the U.S. can afford a
one-bedroom or two-bedroom rental at fair market rent. There are <a href="http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2013/ted_20130325.htm" target="_blank">3.6 million</a> such workers, and their total (combined) 2013 earnings is less than the 2013 stock market gains of just <a href="http://www.usagainstgreed.org/Forbes400_2011-13.xls" target="_blank">eight Americans</a>, all of whom <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/20-richest-americans-are-greedy-takers-not-inspirational-makers" target="_blank">take</a> more than their share from society: the four Waltons, the two Kochs, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett.<br /><br /><strong>3. News Sources Speak for the 5%</strong><br /><br />It
would be refreshing to read an honest editorial: "We dearly value the 5
to 7 percent of our readers who make a lot of money and believe that
their growing riches are helping everyone else."<br /><br />Instead, the business media seems unable to differentiate between the top 5 percent and the rest of society. The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323468604578249723138161566.html">Wall Street Journal</a> exclaimed, "Middle-class Americans have more buying power than ever before," and then went on to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324880504578300291357105904" target="_blank">sputter</a>: "What Recession?...The economy has bounced back from recession, unemployment has declined.."<br /><br />The <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02-09/opinion/ct-edit-superpacs-20120209_1_romney-super-pac-gop-groups-priorities-usa-action" target="_blank">Chicago Tribune</a> may
be even further out of touch with its less privileged readers, asking
them: "What's so terrible about the infusion of so much money into the
presidential campaign?"<br /><br /><strong>4. TV News Dumbed Down for American Viewers</strong><br /><br />A 2009 survey by the <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/mcquail6/Online%20readings/19a%20Curran%20et%20al.pdf" target="_blank">European Journal of Communication</a> compared
the U.S. to Denmark, Finland and the UK in the awareness and reporting
of domestic vs. international news, and of "hard" news (politics, public
administration, the economy, science, technology) vs. "soft" news
(celebrities, human interest, sports and entertainment). The results:<br />
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<li>Americans [are] especially uninformed about international public affairs.</li>
<li>American respondents also underperformed in relation to domestic-related hard news stories.</li>
<li>American television reports much less international news than Finnish, Danish and British television;</li>
<li>American television network newscasts also report much less hard news than Finnish and Danish television.</li>
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the report states that "our sample of American newspapers was more
oriented towards hard news than their counterparts in the European
countries." Too bad Americans are reading fewer newspapers.<br /><br /><strong>5. News Execs among White Male Boomers Who Owe Trillions to Society</strong><br /><br />The
hype about the "self-made man" is fantasy. In the early 1970s, we
privileged white males were spirited out of college to waiting jobs in
management and finance, technology was inventing new ways for us to make
money, tax rates were about to tumble, and visions of bonuses and
capital gains danced in our heads.<br /><br />While we were in school the
Defense Department had been preparing the Internet for Microsoft and
Apple, the National Science Foundation was funding the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660" target="_blank">Digital Library Initiative</a> research that would be adopted as the Google model, and the <a href="http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm" target="_blank">National Institute of Health</a> was
doing the early laboratory testing for companies like Merck and Pfizer.
Government research labs and public universities trained thousands of
chemists, physicists, chip designers, programmers, engineers, production
line workers, market analysts, testers, troubleshooters, etc.<br /><br />All we created on our own was a disdainful attitude, like that of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU" target="_blank">Steve Jobs</a>: "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."<br /><br /><strong>6. Funding Plummets for Schools and Pensions as Corporations Stop Paying Taxes</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers50states" target="_blank">Three</a> <a href="http://www.payupnow.org/TaxPercents2011-12_StateSumm.htm" target="_blank">separate</a> <a href="http://npa-us.org/files/thedisappearingcorptaxbase_report.pdf" target="_blank">studies</a> have
shown that corporations pay less than half of their required state
taxes, which are the main source of K-12 educational funding and a
significant part of pension funding. Most recently, the <a href="http://npa-us.org/files/thedisappearingcorptaxbase_report.pdf" target="_blank">report</a>, "The
Disappearing Corporate Tax Base" found that the percentage of corporate
profits paid as state income taxes has dropped from 7 percent in 1980
to about 3 percent today.<br /><br /><strong>7. Companies Based in the U.S. Paying Most of Their Taxes Overseas</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/831001/000110465914015152/a14-3681_610k.htm" target="_blank">Citigroup</a> had
42% of its 2011-'13 revenue in North America (almost all U.S.) and made
$32 billion in profits, but received a U.S. current income tax benefit
all three years.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78003/000007800314000018/pfe-12312013xex13.htm" target="_blank">Pfizer</a> had
40% of its 2011-'13 revenues and nearly half of its physical assets in
the U.S., but declared almost $10 billion in U.S. losses to go along
with nearly $50 billion in foreign profits.<br /><br />In 2013 <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408813000011/xom10k2012.htm" target="_blank">Exxon</a> had about <a href="http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/company/careers/employment-policies/employee-programs" target="_blank">43% of management</a>,
36% of sales, 40% of long-lived assets, and 70-90% of its productive
oil and gas wells in the U.S., yet only paid about 2 percent of its
total income in U.S. income taxes, and most of that was something called
a "theoretical" tax.<br /><br /><strong>8. Restaurant Servers Go Without Raise for 30 Years</strong><br /><br />An evaluation by <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/02-1" target="_blank">Michelle Chen</a> showed
that the minimum wage for tipped workers has been approximately $2 an
hour since the 1980s. She also notes that about 40 percent of these
workers are people of color, and about two-thirds are women.</div>
Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-45064367746896526902014-10-02T15:32:00.000-04:002014-10-02T15:32:01.114-04:00Wanna talk bias?I was in the gym on campus today and numerous TVs were on.<br />
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The one tuned to CNN featured a live speech by President Obama.<br />
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The one tuned to Fox News showed Obama's speech in a small video box while a talking head (who happens to be very anti-Obama) was given the larger part of the screen. On that channel it was her voice that was being heard.<br />
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Meanwhile, the CNN audience actually got to listen to the President.<br />
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Incredibly, as Obama spoke on CNN, Fox News actually showed a clip of President Bush giving a speech.<br />
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Wow.Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-76220970640709761542014-09-30T17:39:00.001-04:002014-09-30T17:39:31.491-04:00Again, what is NEWS?So, a case of Ebola has been reportedly confirmed in the US.<br />
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Of course this is news.<br />
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From today's FB feed:<br />
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<span id="goog_811363008"></span><span id="goog_811363009"></span>So you see, a friend shares an NBC report indicating a single case of Ebola in the US.<br />
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And my reply is, what about all the other stuff that is far more deadly which is not reported in the news?<br />
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So why is Ebola news but the rest is not?<br />
<br />Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-17637688559179265782014-09-29T09:24:00.000-04:002014-09-29T09:24:01.559-04:00What's in the news today, folks?Looks like more violence and more crime ...<br />
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And of course international stories only make the news when they deal with the above issues ...<br />
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<li class="c_hpbullet9" data-vr-contentbox=""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">7 Ukraine soldiers killed by tank fire</a> <span class="cnnPostWOOL"></span> </li>
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-74510981806108658202014-09-15T14:55:00.002-04:002014-09-15T14:55:22.005-04:00If we invade countries that kill Americans........when do we invade America?<br />
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Specifically, when do we invade the corporations that keep killing us?<br />
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<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/15/news/companies/gm-compensation-feinberg/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">19 deaths linked to GM ignition flaw</a> <br />
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19 now. And still growing.<br />
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At least THIS is getting some news coverage.Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-82113282077338108882014-09-12T08:42:00.002-04:002014-09-12T08:42:50.232-04:00"Lack of criminal justice education""Lack of criminal justice education" <br />
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This is one of the major explanations for why the media get it so wrong--i.e., for why the news media often make stupid mistakes when it comes to covering crime and criminal justice.<br />
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Here is an example of it: <br />
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<span class="tease">The former Olympian escaped the more serious charge of murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.</span><span class="reserve-controls"> </span> <a class="more-link" href="http://hsrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KK_KWh6RJUGlYAHDWbvZx4;_ylu=X3oDMTZoc2xtbnJtBGEDQktUIDE0MDkxMiBzcG9ydHMgUGlzdG9yaXVzIHZlcmRpY3QgMiB0BGFpZANpZC0zNTEwODU1BGNjb2RlA2dhX0VSUl8xBGNwb3MDMQRlZAMxBGcDYjBhOGNhZWMtOWIyMS0zYzdjLTk4MmQtMjllN2UyMzVlMjkxBGludGwDdXMEaXRjAzAEcGtndAMxBHBrZ3YDMTEEcG9zAzMEcgNEWWhqWWNBPQRzZWMDdGQtZmVhBHNsawNtb3JlBHRlc3QDOTAxBHdvZQMyMzY2ODU5/RV=1/RE=1411735202/RH=aHNyZC55YWhvby5jb20-/RO=2/RU=aHR0cDovL3Nwb3J0cy55YWhvby5jb20vbmV3cy9vc2Nhci1waXN0b3JpdXMtZm91bmQtZ3VpbHR5LW9mLW5lZ2xpZ2VudC1ob21pY2lkZS0wODI1NTkxMDIuaHRtbA--/RS=%5EADAxvLixuzhfgpnxxG2MQrlDpOlJuk-">
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Sorry, media, that is not possible. People who are incarcerated for more than a year go to prison, not jail. There is a difference, and it actually matters.</div>
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Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-31908634057140625062014-09-08T11:12:00.001-04:002014-09-08T11:12:13.583-04:00Um, CNN, really? These are LEAD stories?Why do Americans need to know who Tiger Woods is friends with, or that a British royal couple is having a second baby?<br />
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Those are among CNN's top stories today.<br />
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<span class="cnnPreWOOL"><span class="c_hpnewbullet">NEW</span></span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/08/world/europe/uk-royal-pregnancy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">Will and Kate expecting 2nd baby</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/09/06/unguarded-tiger-and-rory.cnn.html?hpt=hp_t2">Tiger Woods is friends with WHOM?</a> <span class="cnnPostWOOL"></span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/09/06/unguarded-tiger-and-rory.cnn.html?hpt=hp_t2" target=""><img alt="Tiger Woods is friends with WHOM?" border="0" class="cnnVideoIcon" height="10" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/icons/video_icon.gif" width="16" /></a><br />
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And here is another of their gems:<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/09/08/dnt-ky-camper-sleepwalks-off-cliff.wkyt-wdky.html?hpt=hp_t2">Camper sleepwalks off of a cliff</a> <span class="cnnPostWOOL"></span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/09/08/dnt-ky-camper-sleepwalks-off-cliff.wkyt-wdky.html?hpt=hp_t2" target=""><img alt="Camper sleepwalks off of a cliff" border="0" class="cnnVideoIcon" height="10" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/icons/video_icon.gif" width="16" /></a><br />
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And another: <br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/09/05/dnt-chicago-church-gargoyle-statue-woman-dead.wls.html?hpt=hp_t4">Falling gargoyle statue kills woman</a> <span class="cnnPostWOOL"></span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/09/05/dnt-chicago-church-gargoyle-statue-woman-dead.wls.html?hpt=hp_t4" target=""><img alt="Falling gargoyle statue kills woman" border="0" class="cnnVideoIcon" height="10" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/icons/video_icon.gif" width="16" /></a> <br />
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And this one is highly suggestive that what CNN is after is simply those voyeuristic souls among us who are not interested in being informed but instead just entertained:<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/09/05/hln-intv-hammerhead-shark-close-call-wwl.get-out-da-wata.html?hpt=hp_t4">Hammerhead chases swimmers</a> <span class="cnnPostWOOL"></span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/09/05/hln-intv-hammerhead-shark-close-call-wwl.get-out-da-wata.html?hpt=hp_t4" target=""><img alt="Hammerhead chases swimmers" border="0" class="cnnVideoIcon" height="10" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/icons/video_icon.gif" width="16" /></a><br />
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So when is the news not the news anymore? Right now. Over at CNN.<br />
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<br />Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-87669693301617869522014-09-05T11:22:00.001-04:002014-09-05T11:22:06.523-04:00The Color of JusticeThis is a story that just won't seem to go away.<br />
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And good thing, too, for it is an important one.<br />
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Yes, Blacks commit more than their fair share of (some forms of) crime. This is found to be true whether one uses police statistics, victimization surveys, or even contemporary self-report studies.<br />
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But their overrepresentation in criminal justice statistics is not justified just by higher involvement in crime. To my knowledge, there is no credible study that has even been able to explain that Blacks are more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, and have force used again them more simply because they are more likely to break the law.<br />
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Studies in places like New York City, for example, find that people of color (i.e., Blacks and Latinos) make up about 90% of people being stopped and frisked by police, but they are no more likely to be found in possession of drugs or weapons. See <a href="http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data">here</a> and <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/22/2046451/white-people-stopped-by-new-york-police-are-more-likely-to-have-guns-or-drugs-than-minorities/">here</a>.<br />
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So <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/color-justice">today's article</a> in <i>The New Yorker </i>titled, "The Color of Justice," is very important.<br />
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From the article: <br />
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"Few issues divide white and black Americans more sharply than criminal justice. A Pew Research Center <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2014/08/18/stark-racial-divisions-in-reactions-to-ferguson-police-shooting/" target="_blank">poll</a>
found that eighty per cent of African-Americans thought the Ferguson
case raised important racial issues; only thirty-seven per cent of
whites felt the same. And while fewer than one in five African-Americans
expressed confidence that the investigation of the shooting would be
fair, more than half of whites said that they had confidence in the
investigation.<br />
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"A <a href="http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_Race_and_Punishment.pdf" target="_blank">report</a>
issued today by the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit advocacy group,
confirms the old news that whites and blacks view the justice system
very differently, largely because of their different treatment by it.
The report’s real significance lies in its further contention that this
disparity in perceptions contributes to our astonishingly high
incarceration rate, the highest in the world.<br />
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"White Americans are
decidedly more punitive than African-Americans or Hispanics.
Sixty-three per cent of whites support the death penalty, as compared to
only thirty-six per cent of African-Americans and forty per cent of
Hispanics. Whites are also more supportive of other harsh measures,
including trying juveniles as adults and “three-strikes” laws. Blacks,
by contrast, are substantially more likely to support public investment
in education and job training as a crime-prevention measure. Since
whites are, for the time being, the majority of the polity, our laws
reflect their preferences; American criminal law is dominated by
mandatory minimum sentences, life sentences for minor offenses, and the
widespread abandonment of parole.<br />
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"What explains whites’ preference for harsh criminal laws? Crime
victims understandably might favor more punitive responses. But whites
are considerably less likely to be victims of crime, especially violent
crime: African-Americans are six times more likely than whites to die of
homicide. Crime has always been a more serious problem in areas of
concentrated urban poverty, and blacks more often live in such
neighborhoods. Yet despite their substantially lower vulnerability to
crime, whites are more likely than blacks to support punitive crime
policies.<br />
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"Some people charge that whites use the criminal-justice
system as a continuation of Jim Crow by other means. But the Sentencing
Project report makes a more subtle point. It finds that whites support
tougher criminal laws at least partly because they overestimate black
and Hispanic crime rates. Blacks and Hispanics do commit certain crimes
more frequently, per capita, than whites, but not all. But whites
consistently overestimate the difference, according to one study, by as
much as twenty to thirty per cent. That perception affects attitudes
toward offenders and sentencing. Studies show that the more whites
attribute higher crime rates to blacks and Hispanics, the more likely
they are to support harsh criminal laws. It is less that they are
consciously seeking to subordinate racial minorities than that they fail
to treat the negative consequences of high incarceration rates as their
problem. As the report explains, 'attributing crime to racial
minorities limits empathy toward offenders and encourages retribution.'<br />
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"This is a damning indictment. If anyone were to admit that they
preferred the death penalty, life without parole, or harsh sentences
because they believe the perpetrators of violent crimes are more likely
to be black or Hispanic, we would immediately condemn them as the worst
sort of racist. If a prosecutor, judge, or juror expressed such a
sentiment, any resulting conviction or sentence would be swiftly
overturned. No one admits that they feel this way, but the studies
recounted by the Sentencing Project suggest that this is precisely what
many white Americans feel."<br />
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It is called innocent bias or implicit bias or timid bigotry. Or just call it fear of the <i>criminalblackman</i>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Color-Crime-Protectionism-Macroaggressions/dp/0814775322">as Dr. Kathryn Russell-Brown calls it</a>. <br />
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<br />Dr. Matthew Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04632005749396918079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757214464042252416.post-15299919293051444192014-09-03T16:18:00.001-04:002014-09-03T16:18:25.283-04:00Do white police officers shoot black suspects more than others?Turns out we don't know, or at least says <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/sunday-review/race-and-police-shootings-are-blacks-targeted-more.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0">an article</a> in the <i>New York Times</i>.<br />
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Here is how the article begins:<br />
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"IF
anything good has come out of this month’s fatal shooting of Michael
Brown in Ferguson, Mo., it is that the death of the black teenager
shined a spotlight on the plague of shootings of black men by white
police officers. And maybe now, the nation will begin to address the
racism behind it.</div>
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"That
is the conventional wisdom, anyway, and maybe it is true. Only a fool
would deny that racial bias still pervades aspects of American society.
The evidence is clear that some police law-enforcement tactics — traffic
stops, to cite one example — disproportionately target
African-Americans. And few doubt that blacks are more likely than whites
to die in police shootings; in most cities, the percentage almost
certainly exceeds the African-American share of the population.</div>
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"Such
arguments suggest that the use of deadly force by police officers
unfairly targets blacks. All that is needed are the numbers to prove it.</div>
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"But
those numbers do not exist. And because of that, the current national
debate over the role of race in police killings is being conducted more
or less in a vacuum."</div>
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And that is a good start. </div>
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But within the article is information that allows us to draw some tentative conclusions. For example:</div>
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Here is a study:</div>
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"A
more comprehensive analysis exists: Dr. Klinger and Dr. Rosenfeld,
among others, examined all 230 instances over 10 years in which officers
of the St. Louis police fired their weapons (the city’s police, in
contrast to the police in Ferguson involved in Mr. Brown’s shooting).</div>
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"Their
conclusions, presented last November at the American Society of
Criminology’s annual meeting, were striking. Officers hit their targets
in about half of the 230 incidents; in about one-sixth, suspects died.
Of the 360 suspects whose race could be identified — some fled before
being seen clearly — more than 90 percent were African-American.</div>
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"But most interesting, perhaps, was the race of the officers who fired
their weapons. About two-thirds were white, and one-third black —
effectively identical to the racial composition of the St. Louis Police
Department as a whole. In this study, at least, firing at a black
suspect was an equal-opportunity decision."</div>
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Other findings, inconsistent with this one, are mentioned in the article.</div>
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Left out are facts identified in the media book:</div>
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1) When people think of crime, they tend to think of violent street crime committed by blacks.</div>
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2) When people hear news about crime when the suspect's race is not identified, they tend to assumed it is black person.</div>
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3) Fear is higher of blacks than whites.</div>
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etc. etc. etc. </div>
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