- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
- 1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality
- 2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality
- 3 Measuring Poverty
- 4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
- 5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States
- 6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America
- 7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring
- 8 The Demise of a Dinosaur
- 9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts
- 10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s
- 11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration
- 12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty
- 13 U.S. Education and Training Policy
- 14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
- 15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills”
- 16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty
- 17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility
- 18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It?
- 19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States
- 20 How Much More Can They Work?
- 21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal
- 22 Fighting Poverty
- 23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship
- 24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code
- 25 Minority Business Development Programs
- 26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven
- Contributors
- Index
The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty
The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty
- Chapter:
- (p.336) 12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty
- Source:
- Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy
- Author(s):
- Martin Gilens
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
Americans rely heavily on the news media for information about society in general, and the media shape the public's perception of the social and political world they inhabit. This chapter investigates the role of the national news media in shaping American's views on race, poverty, and welfare. It examines news magazines and television news shows and argues that mass media distortions correspond with public misperceptions about race and poverty.
Keywords: news media, race, poverty, news magazines, television news shows
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
- 1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality
- 2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality
- 3 Measuring Poverty
- 4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
- 5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States
- 6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America
- 7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring
- 8 The Demise of a Dinosaur
- 9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts
- 10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s
- 11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration
- 12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty
- 13 U.S. Education and Training Policy
- 14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
- 15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills”
- 16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty
- 17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility
- 18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It?
- 19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States
- 20 How Much More Can They Work?
- 21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal
- 22 Fighting Poverty
- 23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship
- 24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code
- 25 Minority Business Development Programs
- 26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven
- Contributors
- Index
