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re: #337 Dark_Falcon
It isn’t the national news-networks that should be blamed for people’s preceptions of crime, not mostly. Fox News has done its share of bad work on this score (as witness their infamous “knock-out game” coverage), but most people get their crime news from local media sources. And local network affiliates and newspapers tend to cover sensational crimes at a much great rate than that at which they occur.
That may have been true at one time, but not any longer:
The Personal News Cycle: How Americans choose to get their news
Introduction
Contrary to the conventional wisdom about media consumption dividing along generational or political lines, a new survey finds that the nature of the news itself — the topic and speed of the story — largely determines where people go to learn about events and the path they take to get there.
The findings also suggest that some long-held beliefs about people relying on just a few primary sources for news are now obsolete.
In contrast to the idea that one generation tends to rely on print, another on television and still another the web, the majority of Americans across generations now combine a mix of sources and technologies to get their news each week, according to the survey by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Where people go for news, moreover, depends significantly on the topic of the story — whether it is sports or science, politics or weather, health or arts — and on the nature of the story — whether it is a fast-moving event, a slower-moving trend, or an issue that the person follows passionately. […]
