Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities

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Columbia University Press, May 6, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 240 pages
Scooped! surveys the impact of tabloid journalism in America and reveals that crime news and reporting say much about a society fascinated by sleaze and violence. David Krajicek raises important questions about how and why certain crimes are reported, and the ways in which these representations are framing debates concerning crime policy and the criminal justice system. He challenges journalists--in the tabloid, television, and otherwise "respectable" news media--to fulfill their mission to inform, and not inflame, the public.
 

Contents

Dancing with Trash in America the Violent
11
Rupert Amy and OJ
31
Seven Little Sins So Many Stories
69
Anything Particularly Cruel The World of Crime Reporting
93
The Crime Policy Follies Caution Politicians at Work
135
Telling the Truth Less Poorly
179
Afterword
201
Notes
209
Index
227
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David J. Krajicek, an award-winning journalist, has written about crime for newspapers and magazines for twenty years.

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