CRM 100 Chapter 2: Readings-Week2

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News that counts: newspaper images of crime and victimization statistics. Agencies that acquire hierarchal positions of power are likely to hold precedence over the content of the given statistic. New statistics: call into question the old and encourage the viewer to not believe the first. Crime statistics also enter the news flow by background information with context to the theme of the broadcast. Statistics are often packed in order to maintain dominant values. Statistics are often perceived as more complex than they are, which is false because it is easier to find a statistic than to go to an organization and talk to a person about a thing. Statistics can be used to dramatize the event to make an emergent issue. Statistics are detached from the methodologies used to produce them which makes them malleable to be put out of context and reflect biases and preconceptions as they are passed along.

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