News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City

News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City
ISBN-10
1317230558
ISBN-13
9781317230557
Category
Social Science
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2017-05-25
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Linda Steiner, Silvio Waisbord

Description

This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015. Contributors take Baltimore to be an important place, symbol, and marker, though the issues are certainly not unique to Baltimore: they have crucial implications for contemporary journalism in the U.S. These events prompt several questions: How well did journalism do, in Baltimore, nearby and nationally, in explaining the endemic issues besetting Baltimore? What might have been done differently? What is the responsibility of journalists to anticipate and cover these problems? How should they cover social problems in urban areas? What do the answers to such questions suggest about how journalists should in future cover such problems?

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