WORTH: 2% of semester grade
CAN THIS BE TURNED IN LATE?: no
DUE: 11/06 by blackboard by classtime
BE
SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE
(5% penalty if you do not).
All files should be saved on your computer
as: your last name, followed by an underscore ("_"),
followed by the first two letters of your first name, followed
by an underscore ("_"), followed
by the assignment number. So if a student named Saddam Hussein
were to submit assignment number 16, the file name would
be:
hussein_sa_16.doc
THIS
IS ASSIGNMENT 16
1) According to Beckett, have sudden increases in crime coverage in the news come from (A) increase in crime rates or (b) politcians' efforts to increase crime stories. Be sure to use your own language in your response and TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES to support your answer.
2) The author describes two different frames from two different time periods for journalistic accounts of cocaine usage: the "recovery" frame and the "siege" frame. Write the lead paragraph from a hypothetical news story from each period that adopts the appropriate "frame."
3) How and why do ratings incrase the likelihood of news media covering a crime story?
PREPARE FOR THE QUIZ ON THIS CHAPTER ON 11/06!