Article
Kerner Plus 20: Minority News Coverage in the Columbus Dispatch – AComparative Content Study
NewspaperResearch Journal
Document Type
Article
Publisher
Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Publication Date
4-1-1989
Disciplines
Abstract
An examination of news content about minorities in the Columbus Dispatch finds little change in amount of coverage between 1965 - three years before the Kerner Commission Report - and 1987 but some improvement in the kind and tone of minority coverage.
Citation Information
Edward C. Pease “Kerner Plus 20: Minority News Coverage in the Columbus Dispatch – A
Comparative Content Study,” Newspaper Research Journal, 10 (3): 31-45. (Spring 1989).
Originally Published by the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Newspaper Research Journal.
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