by Marjie Lundstrom | Sacramento Bee
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Intimate partner violence is commonplace, yet it is rarely newsworthy enough to make headlines. This article highlights research from the Berkeley Media Studies Group report Distracted by Drama, an analysis of all the articles on intimate partner violence that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury News in 2000.
by Lori Dorfman | Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Violence has many causes and many solutions. Handgun availability is one of them, and reducing this variable helped contribute to the dramatic decline in violence during the 1990s.by Sonja Herbert | Los Angeles Times
Thursday, July 25, 2002
Preschool is a key part of the U.S. educational system, yet parents are expected to shoulder the full financial burden. Legislators should be jumping to fix this.by Joel Ervice | San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
BMSG's Joel Ervice challenges a tobacco company spokesman's claim that our nation's $157.7 billion annual cost in smoking-related medical bills and productivity losses is meaningless. Ervice puts the figure in perspective, showing that it is three times the U.S. government's yearly spending on education.by Iris Diaz | San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
The tobacco industry reaps profits while passing off the social costs of its deadly products to taxpayers, says BMSG's Iris Diaz in this letter to the editor.by John McManus, Lori Dorfman | Oakland Tribune
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
Child care ought to be newsworthy, yet as former BMSG researcher John McManus and current director Lori Dorfman show in this article, it is barely visible in American newspapers. In fact, McManus and Dorfman's research reveals that California newspapers average just two stories per year about child care in their business sections, even though the industry generates as much money per year in California as vegetable crops or livestock.by Lori Dorfman, Vincent Schiraldi | Los Angeles Times
Sunday, April 15, 2001
What Americans see and hear about youth in the news bears little resemblance to young people's real lives. Repeated images of students as schoolhouse killers, coupled with the absence of more balanced depictions of youth in general, have stereotyped youth as violent and depraved. BMSG director Lori Dorfman and Vincent Schiraldi of the Justice Policy Institute explain why this is damaging to the public and how the news media can improve its coverage of youth.by Lori Dorfman, Vincent Schiraldi | San Diego Union Tribune
Friday, April 13, 2001
Do we get enough information from the news to understand violence among youth? To answer that question, BMSG director Lori Dorfman and Justice Policy Institute president Vincent Schiraldi analyzed more than 100 scientific studies of news content of youth and crime. Their findings, explained in this article, are disturbing.by David Sarasohn | The Oregonian
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
If you get your information on youth from the media, you likely think young people are much more violent than they really are. That’s the conclusion of Off Balance: Youth, Race and Crime in the News, a report from Berkeley Media Studies Group. The report found that throughout the 1990s, as juvenile crime went down, stories on juvenile crime went up.
by Erin Texeira | Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
A report from Berkeley Media Studies Group shows that the media's focus on youth violence, especially among youth of color, is out of proportion to the problem. Media tend to overreport stories with youth and ethnic minorities as criminals and underreport instances in which they are victims.
