Lowry, Tarn Ching Josephine Nio, and Dennis W. Leitner. They establish their findings on the portrayal of crimes in the media and the public through the article, “Setting the Public Fear Agenda: A longitudinal Analysis of Network TV Crime Reporting, Public Perceptions of Crime, and FBI Crime Statistics”. These authors question, “does the real world events matter anymore or has the network TV crime news becoming the Americans public’s virtual crime reality”(61). To answer this question Lowry looks into what is known as the “Big Scare” of 1994. Data collected and presented in the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1997 (U.S.)
Lowry, Tarn Ching Josephine Nio, and Dennis W. Leitner. They establish their findings on the portrayal of crimes in the media and the public through the article, “Setting the Public Fear Agenda: A longitudinal Analysis of Network TV Crime Reporting, Public Perceptions of Crime, and FBI Crime Statistics”. These authors question, “does the real world events matter anymore or has the network TV crime news becoming the Americans public’s virtual crime reality”(61). To answer this question Lowry looks into what is known as the “Big Scare” of 1994. Data collected and presented in the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1997 (U.S.)