Race of shooters influences media coverage [View all]

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Oliver Willis (@owillis) Tweeted:
Race of mass shooters influences how the media cover their crimes, new study shows https://t.co/fDIvffsu9S

Link to tweet

From the article
snip..."found that the shooter’s race could strongly predict whether the media framed him as mentally ill. (Less than 1 percent of the crimes had a female perpetrator.)

In all, about 33 percent of the articles in our study describing the crimes of a white shooter made a mention of mental illness. On the other hand, 26 percent of articles describing a Latino shooter and only two percent of articles describing a black shooter mentioned mental illness."

snip..."Media coverage actively shapes how we perceive reality.

It seems as if media outlets tend to cast the violent acts of white criminals as unfortunate anomalies of circumstance and illness. For black shooters (and, to a lesser extent, Latino shooters) media outlets render their crimes with a brush of inherent criminality."


I think I'll put this in the 'no lie' fille.
And x post this to Editoral& Reads as well
I also like this guys' twitter feed( no bennies to me from that statement)