A new survey, according to Reuters (5/7), confirms the "television adage
'if it bleeds it leads' and bolstered the claims of critics that U.S.
television newscasts have become a newsreel of stretchers, body bags,
yellow police tape and anguished victims."
University of Miami communications Professor Joseph Angotti, who headed the
survey, said he is most disturbed by the survey finding that, in Reuters'
words,
only a "small amount of TV time [is] devoted to coverage of government and
virtually non-existent coverage of race relations and education."
Reuters quoted Angotti saying, "I think one of the reasons they don't cover
education is because it's a non-visual story... There's nothing more boring
than a board of education meeting."
For the Reuters story:
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/970507/news/stories/tvcrime_1.html