Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities ebook download David J. Krajicek

Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities

Krajicek, a former crime reporter, takes an unblinking look at his profession and the country's crime dilemma. He concludes that while journalists have increasingly focused on trivial sleaze, celebrity scandals, and gruesome but unrepresentative crimes, they have neglected a far more important crime story: the collapse of the American criminal justice system as a cost-efficient, equitable deterrent. He argues that crime trends and crime policy often have little to do with one another, so it is no wonder that Americans are confused and frightened about crime. Krajicek shows that tabloid distractions drew journalists away from the substantive reporting that could have given a more accurate account of crime during the past decade. Instead, stories about a 'society under siege' led to panic about lawlessness, and politicians -- playing their customary role -- stepped in with the usual 'solutions': more arrests, more prisons, longer sentences. "Scooped!" challenges each journalist -- from publisher to reporter -- to take responsibility for his work, and calls on the media to more closely examine crime policy and hold politicians responsible for legislation that doesn't work. President Johnson observed in 1965 that 'jobs, education, and hope' are the only realistic crime-control strategies. David J. Krajicek's provocative book provides the basis for rational discussion and responsible action.

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Title of ebook: Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities
ISBN: 9780231500258
parent-ISBN: 9780231102926
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 04-1998
Released online for download: 01-01-2001
Author of eBook: Krajicek, David J.

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Contents

Preface.............................................................ix Introduction.........................................................1 1 Dancing with Trash in America the Violent........................11 2 Rupert, Amy, and OJ..............................................31 3 Seven Little Sins, So Many Stories...............................69 4 Anything Particularly Cruel: The World of Crime Reporting........93 5 The Crime Policy Follies: Caution! Politicians at Work..........135 6 Telling the Truth Less Poorly...................................179 Notes..............................................................201 Index..............................................................219

CHAPTER ONE

Dancing with Trash in America the Violent

How do Americans form their opinions about crime? It seems to me there are three primary sources of information: personal anecdotes, the mass media, and politicians.

Everyone knows someone who has been a victim of a crime--a burglary, a car break-in, a mugging. These anecdot ... read full excerpt from: Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities ebook

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