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This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967-1973). Christian Davenport argues that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific details are reported, including who starts and ends the conflict, who the Black Panthers target (government or non-government actors), and which part of the government responds (the police or court). Specifically, proximate and government-oriented sources provide one assessment of events, whereas proximate and dissident-oriented sources have another; both converge on specific aspects of the conflict. The methodological implications of the study are clear; Davenport's findings prove that in order to understand contentious events, it is crucial to understand who collects or distributes the information in order to comprehend who reportedly does what to whom as well as why.
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Jalbert Levesque
reviewed Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression on October 12, 2018
Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression
This true story of the 1920s was totally fascinating. I'd like the Coen brothers to make a film of it, please. But it was so awkwardly written that I kept being pulled out of the events. Perhaps after reading so many contemporary newspaper accounts this hyperbolic, florid style felt right to the author. I didn't dig it.
Also, the book seemed to have been copyedited by a spellcheck program. I know I'm being nit-picky, but here are some examples (there were more):
Browning's problems seemed to multiple by the hour (p 88)
Browning had come home in a fowl frame of mind (p 241)
She peaked in the mirror (p 243)
The shear breadth of Browing's pending estate (p 313)
I was really excited to learn about a Jazz Age scandal that was new to me. But I lost a little faith in the whole thing when, on page 14, Greenburg mentions that "Fatty Arbuckle stood accused of the...death of a party guest in his home." Everyone (well, everyone with weird interests that correspond with mine) knows that the infamous party that effectively ended Fatty Arbuckle's career was held at the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco, not his home.
Still, I finished the book gladly, eager to find out the entire bizarre story of Peaches and Daddy.
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