Media Bias in Crime Reporting In what ways do the media construct crime images?

In general, the media have tremendous power to influence public thought and opinion, such as by the choice of stories to report as well as by the specific manner in which they describe offenders, victims, and circumstances. When it comes to crime, the media construct images in various realms, including the relative frequency (and risk) of certain types of crimes and the public expectation about what groups of people are more likely to be offenders or victims of those crimes. For example, by choosing to report crimes featuring a white victim and a black offender, the media can portray one race as being composed of more offenders than the other and one race as being composed of more victims than the other. Similarly,...

For example, the notoriously Right Wing news outfit Breitbart.com recently included the following description used by one of its contributing editors to characterize the cultures from which so many people are entering the U.S. across its Southern border:
"Many Americans don't understand the power of word-of-mouth…