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Framing Hate: A Comparison of Media Coverage of Anti-Gay Hate Crime in the Washington Post and Washington Blade

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This paper is part of a larger project in which we explore the nature and consequences of media coverage of hate crime. Here we present the results of the first part of the project, an analysis of media coverage of hate crime from 1990 to 2000. We analyze coverage of hate crime in the Washington Post to begin to understand the information that is available to readers of mainstream news. Specifically, we examine the frames and causal attributions offered for making sense of hate crime. As a point of comparison, we also analyze coverage in the Washington Blade, the gay newspaper in Washington DC, to understand how the gay community frames this issue. One test of whether mainstream media help their audience to see anti-gay hate crime as gays do is to see if they invoke the same frames as the gay press. We find that the gay press is much more likely to cover hate crime across the decade. Readers of the Washington Blade are much more likely to encounter articles dealing with hate crime than readers of the Washington Post. For the Washington Post, substantial coverage only comes with the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. On the other hand, the Post does include many of the same frames invoked on behalf of hate crime legislation. The perspective of the gay community in this respect is present in Washington Post coverage.

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Gross, Kimberly. and Goldman, Seth. "Framing Hate: A Comparison of Media Coverage of Anti-Gay Hate Crime in the Washington Post and Washington Blade" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62510_index.html>

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Gross, K. and Goldman, S. K. , 2003-08-27 "Framing Hate: A Comparison of Media Coverage of Anti-Gay Hate Crime in the Washington Post and Washington Blade" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62510_index.html

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Abstract: This paper is part of a larger project in which we explore the nature and consequences of media coverage of hate crime. Here we present the results of the first part of the project, an analysis of media coverage of hate crime from 1990 to 2000. We analyze coverage of hate crime in the Washington Post to begin to understand the information that is available to readers of mainstream news. Specifically, we examine the frames and causal attributions offered for making sense of hate crime. As a point of comparison, we also analyze coverage in the Washington Blade, the gay newspaper in Washington DC, to understand how the gay community frames this issue. One test of whether mainstream media help their audience to see anti-gay hate crime as gays do is to see if they invoke the same frames as the gay press. We find that the gay press is much more likely to cover hate crime across the decade. Readers of the Washington Blade are much more likely to encounter articles dealing with hate crime than readers of the Washington Post. For the Washington Post, substantial coverage only comes with the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. On the other hand, the Post does include many of the same frames invoked on behalf of hate crime legislation. The perspective of the gay community in this respect is present in Washington Post coverage.

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Framing Hate: A Comparison of Media Coverage of Anti-Gay Hate Crime in the Washington Post and Washington Blade Kimberly Gross Seth Goldman George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs 805 21st NW Suite 400 Washington DC 20052 Email: kimgross@gwu.edu sethrock@gwu.edu Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 28-31 2003 Philadelphia PA. This paper is part of a larger project in which we explore the nature and consequences of media
Washington Blade Number of Bias Crimes Note. This table presents the total number of articles in the Washington Post Washington Blade and New York Times that provide substantive attention to hate crime between 1990 and 2000. This is a sub-sample of the total articles shown in Figure1. Articles must contain at least one reference to a specific hate crime hate crimes politics or hate crimes generally in at least three paragraphs to be included. The left vertical axis shows


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