Over the years, it seems that their relationship has gotten worse. Many complaints of police abuse and misconduct of the media by police, along with police being portrayed as being corrupted, abusive have extended the poor relationship between the police and the media (Bellew, 2001). According to Gerald Garner, an author on police and mass media relations, states the reason behind the rocky relationship between the police and the media as “a very basic mistrust and perhaps even mutual dislike still found today between some journalists and some police can be traced at least partially to the improper actions engaged in by each ground in the past” (Bellew,
Over the years, it seems that their relationship has gotten worse. Many complaints of police abuse and misconduct of the media by police, along with police being portrayed as being corrupted, abusive have extended the poor relationship between the police and the media (Bellew, 2001). According to Gerald Garner, an author on police and mass media relations, states the reason behind the rocky relationship between the police and the media as “a very basic mistrust and perhaps even mutual dislike still found today between some journalists and some police can be traced at least partially to the improper actions engaged in by each ground in the past” (Bellew,