Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"On April 29, 1992, the "worst riots of the century" (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television newsworkers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants, and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles "riots" zeroes in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organization found in them, as well as those made by fifteen groups of viewers in the events' aftermath. Combining ethnographic and quasi-experimental methods, Darnell M. Hunt's account reveals how race shapes both television's construction of news and viewers' understandings of it. He engages with the longstanding debates about the power of television to shape our thoughts versus our ability to resist, and concludes with implications for progressive change"--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Race relations and the press-- United States.
Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992-- Press coverage.
Television broadcasting of news-- California-- Los Angeles.
Relations raciales et presse-- États-Unis.
Télévision-- Émissions de nouvelles-- Californie-- Los Angeles.