The ‘Welfare Queen’ Experiment By Franklin D. Gilliam Jr.• Reforming Welfare, Reporting on Poverty: The Challenges of Reporting This Story in Various Communities and Other Countries• 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• Media and Juvenile Violence: The Connecting Threads.• 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 a … Read more