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Philadelphia Inquirer: Lights. Camera. Crime.

Philadelphia Inquirer (3/29/22)

This week on CounterSpin: A longtime reporter, at Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV since the 1960s, remembered spending shifts in his early days just listening to a police scanner, waiting for a crime to happen. The station’s decision to adopt a then-novel “Action News” format dictated that hyper-focus on crime. But, as detailed in a new report from the Philadelphia Inquirer, it also dictated that the scanner being monitored was in Kensington, a multi-racial, working-class neighborhood struggling with poverty and its attendant ills—and not someplace else.

“Lights. Camera. Crime” is an early installment of the Inquirer‘s “A More Perfect Union” project, aimed at examining the roots and branches of racism in US institutions, including media institutions. The story was reported by Layla A. Jones. We’ll speak to Layla Jones today on CounterSpin.

      CounterSpin220415Jones.mp3

 

Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent coverage of FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, war coverage and “grooming.”

      CounterSpin220415Banter.mp3

 

The post Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’ appeared first on FAIR.


This content originally appeared on FAIR and was authored by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.

Citations

[1] Philadelphia-born Action and Eyewitness TV news format impacted Black America ➤ https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-action-eyewitness-news-tv-racism-crime-20220329.html[2] NYT’s Trauma Tourism Will Have Deadly Consequences — FAIR ➤ https://fair.org/home/nyts-trauma-tourism-will-have-deadly-consequences/[3] Lights. Camera. Crime ➤ https://www.inquirer.com/news/lights-camera-crime-20220328.html[4] Examining the roots of systemic racism in Philadelphia ➤ https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-philadelphia-systemic-racism-20220209.html[5] Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’ — FAIR ➤ https://fair.org/home/layla-a-jones-on-lights-camera-crime/[6] FAIR — FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. ➤ https://fair.org/