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News & Views - Vol. 07, No. 03 - November 4, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 07, No. 02 - October 21, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 07, No. 01 - October 7, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 17 - August 12, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 16 - May 23, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 15 - May 16, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 14 - April 8, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 13 - March 28, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 12 - March 15, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 11 - February 25, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 10 - February 9, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 09 - February 1, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 08 - January 14, 1988, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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Media Images Of Boston's Black Community, Kirk A. Johnson

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

In their efforts to report on the forces that affect Boston's racial climate, the local media have typically focused on the more obvious institutional actors: businesses, city hall, school boards, churches, the courts, neighborhood groups. Rarely have the media themselves been subjected to the same scrutiny. This study represents one such effort It is an analysis of the images of Boston's black community that are conveyed through the local news media. It asks the question: If a Bostonian relied solely on the local news for information about local blacks, 1) what impressions would he or she be left with, and …

Covering The Plague Years: Four Approaches To The Aids Beat, James Kinsella

New England Journal of Public Policy

AIDS reporting has changed dramatically since 1981. But it was not until mid-1985, when Rock Hudson was diagnosed with the disease, that media outlets began playing the epidemic as a story of major proportions.

Because almost no major media institution embraced the AIDS story as an important issue, coverage of the epidemic was often the result of a reporter's initiative. Consequently, the connection the individual journalist had with the epidemic became a much stronger influence on what appeared in the news and on what Americans knew about the crisis than in any other recent major health story. This article examines …

News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 07 - December 3, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 05 - November 3, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 04 - October 19, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 03 - October 5, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 02 - September 15, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 06, No. 01 - August 31, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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Editor [Submitted To A Boston Daily], Mary Helen Washington

Trotter Review

Many people in the black community (I among them) strongly object to the "Frontline" documentary, "Street Cop," which was shown on Channel 2 on March 31. But I have even stronger objections to Ed Siegel's review of "Street Cop," which commends the show as "street smart" and dismisses all the serious criticisms of the show from the black community as "not convincing." I am not exactly sure why "street smart" has such a sterling quality for Siegel, but it is disturbing that such a criterion would take precedent over the criticisms that the program stereotypes blacks and Hispanics and misrepresents …

"Street Cop" Is Not Street-Smart, Kirk A. Johnson

Trotter Review

"Frontline," the award-winnnng WGBH-TV series, is airing a nationally televised special on the war against street drugs. The show, called "Street Cop," takes viewers to Boston's inner city for fifty minutes of heart-pumping violence. We see the police take a sledgehammer to an apartment door in search of drugs as the women and children inside scream in wide-eyed terror. We watch police officers wrestle a young man to the pavement over a suspected drug deal, and we feel the tension mount during a domestic argument until in the confusion a woman is arrested for throwing what an officer thought was …

Newspapers And Their Relationship To The Black Agenda, Dexter D. Eure Sr.

Trotter Review

The news media, by print or electronics, influences and shapes society's attitudes; it is essential then, if not vital, that the media accurately reflect every aspect of our society - including the good, the bad, and the ugly. By keeping this nation - as well as the world - in its proper context, we can better understand - and thus better solve - the problems that envelop us, such as racism, sexism, unemployment, hazardous waste, and the consequences of a nuclear meltdown.

To help present an accurate picture of who we are and what's happening around us, the news media …

Media Images And Racial Stereotyping, Kirk A. Johnson

Trotter Review

To better understand how the local media portray Boston's black community, I monitored news reports from a sample of newspapers and radio and television stations for one month during the summer of 1986. I noted the roles blacks played, the activities blacks were shown to be engaged in, and the events that brought blacks into the news. By comparing the portrayal of blacks in Boston's major media with portrayals in the black media, I sought to understand the criteria that reporters and editors use to judge the newsworthiness of items relating to the black community, and to determine whether (and …

Boston School Desegregation: The Fallowness Of Common Ground, Robert A. Dentler

Trotter Review

This essay scrutinizes the book by J Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, to assess whether it presents a valid and reliable account of the issues, people, and events it chronicles. The substantive core of the book is shown to be the politics of Boston public school desegregation. The parts played by the three families in this event are dramatically portrayed but cannot be corroborated and are not interpreted. The parts played by five major policy leaders, when tested against other evidence, are found to be distorted, questionable legends woven in …

News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 15 - June 14, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 14 - May 14, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 13 - May 1, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 11 - April 6, 1987, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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