[9.3a.1] For video clip examples of different types of news stories, go to the NewsLab site and click on “Links” for a list of the video clips.

[9.3a.2] In a PBS NewsHour analysis of WBBM, a Chicago station that made a failed attempt to provide in-depth coverage of local news, audience ratings declined when in-depth coverage was provided, leading the station to abandon what they perceived to be a journalistic experiment.

[9.3a.3] In his documentary Bowling for Columbine, about gun violence in America, Michael Moore argues that the heavy emphasis on crime and violence in American television news has created a sense of fear in the American public to the point that they believe that they need to not only own guns, but use them to protect themselves.

[9.3a.4] Crime in the News [Media Awareness Network Lesson, grades 10–12]

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[9.3a.6] Tyndall Report: monitors network TV news

[9.3a.7] Project for Excellence: The State of the News Media, 2005
Study of network and PBS NewsHour news broacasts found that they offered more thorough reporting than cable news and employed use of correspondents with more viewpoints than most TV News; The NewsHour employed more reporting than network news; morning news are less likely to cover major stories than evening news; the range of coverage of headline topics was limited for all broadcasts.

[9.3a.8] Media Education.net: Curriculum: studying television news in Europe

For further reading:

Alteide, D. L. (2002). Creating fear: News and the construction of crisis. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Lipschultz, J. H., & Hilt, M. L. (2002). Crime and local television news: Dramatic, breaking, and live from the scene. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tovares, R. D. (2002). Manufacturing the gang: Mexican American youth gangs on local television news. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.