I want to show somthing about the type of people that commit crimes. I am going to collect the blotter from the Dallas Morning News for a weeks and catalog the type of crime as violent or non violent, what the crime was and what the race of the person was who commited the crime.
We did a reading ealier in the semester about how some news staions only showed the crimes on tv that were commited by minorites, even though everyone commits crimes. Thise type of selective showing leads people to form negitive options about certain races. The media has the ability to shape the opinions of people.
I want to know if the newspaper does the smae thing or if it reports crme about all different types of people.
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