Journalists need to break through stereotyped news coverage andtake a healing role to improve race relations in Chicago and theUnited States, three Northwestern University researchers saidThursday at a downtown forum.
The professors presented studies of network TV coverage, mayoralelection coverage in Chicago and articles on Native Americans thatthey say show bias toward stereotypes and a lack of serious analysisof racial issues.
Often subtle in its stereotyping, they said such coverage canexacerbate what sociologists call sometimes covert "modern racism"among whites.
For example, a survey of network news in 1990 and 1991 found"nearly two-thirds of …
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