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Abstract
Research has been conducted for several decades on the framing of stories in the media. This article looks at the way newspaper articles report on and frame the deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of law enforcement and security personnel from 1999-2017 to determine if local and national print media frame these stories using similar terminology and concepts. Tabular, graphical, and statistical analysis all demonstrate that local and national newspapers do not use similar terminology and concepts.
Highlights
Statistical Findings To achieve a higher-level perspective, frequency data related to the occurrence of the concepts police, black, white, shooting, shot, fired, gun, death, killed, fatal, murder, justice, officials, jury, and attorney were aggregated into five clusters as seen in Table 5: police, race, shooting, death, and justice
The null and alternative hypotheses used in the chi-square test of association were H0: Local and national print media employ similar terminology and concepts to describe and characterize incidents involving the deaths of unarmed people of color and subsequent legal proceedings; and HA: Local and national print media employ different terminology and concepts to describe and characterize incidents involving the deaths of unarmed people of color and subsequent legal proceedings
As the reader can see from both the graphical and statistical analysis of this data, the authors have demonstrated that there is a marked difference between local coverage of these deaths and national coverage of the same stories
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They are names most of the public learned due to the extensive media coverage their situations received. Because many people in the US have formed opinions on these and similar cases based in part on the way that the media have portrayed them, the authors of this study wanted to know what that media coverage looked like They wondered if there were differences in the ways these stories were presented to the public based on the proximity of the newspaper to the story. The authors agree with Vakili (2016) when he says that while newspapers are no longer the primary vehicle for news delivery that they
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