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Archive for August, 2008
Fact Sheet 51 – The Media and Crime Coverage
“..the selection of courtroom dramas, the placement of front-page photos of the accused in prominent murder trials and the invasive nature of interviews with victims and families on the courtroom steps are driven more by ratings and entertainment values than by the desire to educate and inform the public about the justice system’. (Judy McGregor, [...]
Newsletter 51 – August 2008
The casualties of event centred crime news
In May this year, Professor Jim Tully, head of Journalism at Canterbury University, addressed the PFNZ conference on ‘The Role of the Media in Shaping Public Opinion about Crime and Punishment’. It was a forthright talk on how crime news is defined gathered and constructed for us. Here, [...]
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