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| Autor/inn/en | Utt, Sandra H.; Anast, Adrian |
|---|---|
| Titel | A Hero's Homecoming: A Comparative Analysis of Photographic Coverage. |
| Quelle | (1985), (30 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Attitude Change; Comparative Analysis; Content Analysis; Decision Making; Intermarriage; Journalism; News Reporting; Newspapers; Photographs; Photography; Public Opinion; Racial Bias; Racial Identification; Racial Relations |
| Abstract | A study was conducted to examine how newspapers from both northern and southern states handled news photographs of the homecoming of Lieutenant Robert Goodman, a black Air Force pilot who was captured and then released by Syria. This report focuses specifically on the newspapers' presentation of Lt. Goodman's interracial marriage. The study sought to determine whether newspapers carried two photographs of Goodman's homecoming--his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base and a press conference later that day at the White House--and whether Goodman's wife was systematically excluded from the photo coverage. All daily newspapers from 10 southern and 8 northern states were analyzed for three consecutive days in January 1984. The findings indicated that there was a systematic exclusion of Goodman's wife from the photographic coverage of his homecoming. However, the decision to exclude her was not uniform among the papers sampled. While both northern and southern papers cropped Goodman's wife from photos, northern papers, more consistently than southern papers, did so. The southern papers also gave the story better visual coverage overall. While specific editorial judgments and motives cannot be anticipated, it appeared that southern papers were more liberal in their coverage. The results suggest that, by including Goodman's wife, southern papers were providing a subtle legitimation of interracial couples, while the northern papers conveyed a veiled message reinforcing same-race marriages. (A list of newspapers studied as well as copies of the two photographs are appended.) (HTH) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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