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[[Wikipedia:Self censorship]]
====[http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/not-so-black-and-white/Content?oid=1878067 When is it appropriate to use race in crime reporting?] ====
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The Arkansas-Democrat Gazette uses racial information in its crime reporting. According to deputy editor* Frank Fellone, the newspaper has used race in its "Police Beat" column "for years and years." The newsroom standard, according to Fellone, is "to use all available information provided by the police."
That's at odds with the conventions of many other news outlets, which avoid racial or ethnic identifiers unless they're important or, in some cases, if victims provide detailed descriptions. Newsrooms apply a standard test, according to a '''2008 article from the Society of Professional Journalists: "[Is] the racial information useful to people in the community who might know the attacker or want to avoid harm themselves? Or [is] it so general that it only merely contribute[s] to stereotypes about one group or another?'''" ...
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{{Racists Say}} or to contribute to true stereotypes, to general knowledge as to what type of people are criminal so they can be avoided. Like ghetto areas, etc.
The convention isn't a byproduct of modern political correctness. Roy Reed, former Arkansas Gazette reporter, national and foreign correspondent for the New York Times and longtime professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas, said for most of his career the standard was not to use race unless it was "pertinent" to the story. Similarly, Associated Press style says "references to race or nationality must be relevant to the story." ...
The St. Petersburg-based Poynter Institute has spent years collecting examples of racial bias in news stories to use as teaching aids in ethics and diversity programs. According to vice president and senior scholar [http://www.poynter.org/author/rclark/ Roy Peter Clark], the examples may spring from editors striving to be thorough. "But that's what judgment is for, making distinctions between pertinent details and casual ones."
((this seems poltically correct research work, needs checking))
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[[Category:Self Censorship]]
[http://ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol_5_No_3_March_2014/9.pdf The Invisible Threat for the Future of Journalism: Self Censorship]]
