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It’s Scary Out There in Reporting Land: Why Crime News is on the Rise and Reporting Analysis is on the Decline

Loaded on April 15, 2011 by David Cay Johnston published in Prison Legal News April, 2011, page 26
Filed under: Media. Location: United States of America.
To understand how badly we’re doing the most basic work of journalism in covering the law enforcement beat, try sitting in a barbershop. When I was getting my last haircut, the noon news on the television—positioned to be impossible to avoid watching—began with a grisly murder. The well-educated man in ...

 

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