...investigate "What effect do the mass media have on riots?" The Commission reached three conclusions: distortions, newspapers, radio, and television, on...civil disorders and the underlying problems of race relations.7 Many media representatives interpreted the report as having vindicated their performance....

...shared by the President's Commission on Civil Disorders which said: "Important segments of the media failed to report adequately on the causes and consequences of civil disorders and on the underlying problem of race relations. They have not communicated to the majority of their audience...

...shared by the President's Commission on Civil Disorders which said: "Important segments of the media failed to report adequately on the causes and consequences of civil disorders and on the underlying problem of race relations. They have not communicated to the majority of their audience...

...accurately its scale and character. The overall effect was an exaggeration of both mood and event. * * * We believe that the media have thus far failed to...disorders and the underlying problems of race relations. * * * The communications media, ironically, have failed to communicate." What could be said of the...

...accurately its scale and character. The overall effect was an exaggeration of both mood and event. . . . We believe that the media have thus far failed to...disorders and the underlying problems of race relations. . . . The communications media, ironically, have failed to communicate." What could be said of the...

...accurately its scale and character. The overall effect was an exaggeration of both mood and event. * * * We believe that the media have thus far failed to...disorders and the underlying problems of race relations. * * * The communications media, ironically, have failed to communicate." What could be said of the...

...accurately its scale and character. The overall effect was an exaggeration of both mood and event. . . . We believe that the media have thus far failed to...disorders and the underlying problems of race relations. . . . The communications media, ironically, have failed to communicate." What could be said of the...

...accurately its scale and character. The overall effect was an exaggeration of both mood and event. * * * We believe that the media have thus far failed to...disorders and the underlying problems of race relations. * * * The communications media, ironically, have failed to communicate." What could be said of the...

...write from the standpoint of a white man's world."17 The other was that television and the newspapers failed to report adequately on the causes and consequences...disorders and the underlying problems of race relations. . . . The media — especially television . . . failed to present and analyze to a sufficient extent...

...effect was, we believe, an exaggeration of both mood and event. • Important segments of the media failed to report adequately on the causes and consequences of civil disorders and on the underlying problems of race relations. They have not communicated to the majority of their audience—which...