Introduction [excerpt] The framing of stereotypical images on television news not only harms the viewers in the short term by having a false understanding of the world they live [sic], but, in the long term, it also has the ability for all races of people to further employ hatred, resentment and violence towards other groups of people, including police officers. Furthermore, it also has the capability to create a more sustainable problem from generation to generation. Thus, this...

Introduction [excerpts] In this study I want to highlight the content of television news and demonstrate if it sets a specific political agenda for the American public. The agenda setting theory proposes that mass media can have a signficant effect on what audiences know or learn from the agenda setter; in this case it would be televison news .... There are many outcomes that agenda setting may provoke. Due to television news' agenda setting power, local broadcasting stations can heighten coverage on specific...