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Cultivation Of Fear Of Blacks In Las Vegas Television News Media, Mark Leigh Curry
Cultivation Of Fear Of Blacks In Las Vegas Television News Media, Mark Leigh Curry
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study was a content analysis of Las Vegas television news ( N = 1,145) and was designed to determine whether the potential exists for media consumers in the Las Vegas market to become fearful due to the overrepresentation of crime committed by Black offenders. One research question and two hypotheses were generated for this study. Research question one asked if there was an inverse relationship existing between media reports of index crimes and actual data offered by the State of Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety, and was supported. There was partial support for hypothesis one. Results …