Ethnic/Racial group representation in News Media

n reform in the news media can be developed.
             We randomly selected ABC local news as our sample news source. We wrote down on small individual sheets of paper, allocating one sheet for each potential sample source, local news and national news, of which we picked one literally out of a hat, and ABC, NBC, and CBS, of which we again picked out of a hat. The data then was collected by recording five subsequent days of the daily half hour show of ABC local news. Among the five news shows, there was a total of fifty-nine local news stories. The subjects under study are the ethnic groups of Caucasians, African-Americans, Latino/Hispanics, and Asian-Americans. The over or under-representation of the racial groups among the journalists/reporters and the participants/witnesses represent this corresponding over or under-representation in all forms of media that relay news. The positive or negative aspect of the story as compared to the racial groups shown in the story and the location of the story as compared to the racial !
             groups and the positive or negative nature of the story both represent the positive or negative way in which different racial groups are represented in the news media. The ethnic/ra
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