Over 5 months in 4 large newspapers, reports of criminal incidents and suspect court appearances were analyzed to assess possible bias in representations of minorities. The mention of ethnicity of victim and suspect, and photographs of nonwhite suspects were more frequent than for white suspects but no mention of emotional information.
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