Entertainment or Education: How Do Media Cover the Courts?

Entertainment or Education: How Do Media Cover the Courts?

Examines local television and newspaper coverage of significant trials, the extent to which they are driven by market and audience considerations, and whether television cameras in the courtroom tend to dramatize court reporting; Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Columbia, South Carolina, and Rale...

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Veröffentlicht in:Harvard international journal of press/politics 2002-10, Vol.7 (4), p.80-80
Hauptverfasser: Vinson, C. Danielle, Ertter, John S.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Broadcast journalism
Broadcasting coverage
Media
Newspaper court reporting
Press coverage
Reporters and reporting
Television in the courts
Trials
United States
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Zusammenfassung:Examines local television and newspaper coverage of significant trials, the extent to which they are driven by market and audience considerations, and whether television cameras in the courtroom tend to dramatize court reporting; Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Columbia, South Carolina, and Raleigh, North Carolina, 1993-94. Includes coverage of the O.J. Simpson, Reginald Denny, John Bobbitt, and Lorena Bobbitt trials.
ISSN:1081-180X
1531-328X
DOI:10.1177/108118002129172737