CRJU 20423 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Tongues Untied, Razor Strop, Convenience Store
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When crime waves by sacco chapter 4: mass media and crime waves. Introduction: an understanding of mass media structures and processes is central to any effort to make sense of how crime waves unfold. Journalists are both more blatant and more subtle; media outlets are more plentiful and more varied. Audiences are more literate and yet more susceptible to the power of images: the focus, while perhaps clear in the abstract, creates two practical problems for us. The first concerns the fact that news media differ from each other in terms of their emphases, their reliance on the written or spoken word or on the visual, their invasiveness, and a wide range of other dimensions. A second problem concerns the assumed uniqueness of the media category called news and information. Importance of crime to mass media: that crime and policing are key themes in all forms of media news and entertainment seems beyond dispute.
