An examination of news content about minorities in the Columbus Dispatch finds little change in amount of coverage between 1965 – three years before the Kemer Commission Report-and 1987 but some improvement in the kind and tone of minority coverage.
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Ibid.
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JohnsonLyndon Baines, “Address to the Nation,” in Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968), ibid., p. iii.
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Ibid., p. 10.
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Ibid.
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See, for instance, StoneGerald C.GrusinElinor, “Network TV as the Bad News Bearer,”Journalism Quarterly, 61:517–523, 593 (Autumn 1984); EvartsDru RileyStempelGuido H.III, “Coverage of the 1972 Campaign by TV, News Magazines and Major Newspapers,”Journalism Quarterly, 51:645 (Winter 1974); LoweryDennis T., “Agnew and the Network TV News: A Before/After Content Analysis,”Journalism Quarterly, 48:206 (Summer 1971).
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DeutschmannPaul J., “News Page Content of Twelve Metropolitan Dailies,” (Cincinnati: Scripps Howard Research, 1959) and StempelGuido H.III, “Gatekeeping: The Mix of Topics and the Selection of Stories,”Journalism Quarterly, 62:791–796, (Winter 1985).
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U.S. Bureau of Census, The 1960 Census of Population, (Washington: Department of Commerce, U.S. Govement Printing Office, 1963), p.37–450; and U.S. Bureau of Census, The 1980 Census of Population, (Washington: Department of Commerce, U.S. Goverment Printing Office, 1983), p. 37–28, Table 58.
