The ‘Welfare Queen’ Experiment By Franklin D. Gilliam Jr.• Features• June 15, 1999 How Viewers React to Images of African-American Mothers on Welfare Read more
The Superpredator Script By Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. and Shanto Iyengar• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 1998 The funeral of a Boston youth. Photo by Stan Grossfeld. There is little doubt that television coverage contributes to the public hysteria about youth crime. In particular, local television news plays … Read more
