Abstract
In their efforts to report on the forces that affect Boston's racial climate, the local media have typically focused on the more obvious institutional actors: businesses, city hall, school boards, churches, the courts, neighborhood groups. Rarely have the media themselves been subjected to the same scrutiny. This study represents one such effort. It is an analysis of the images of Boston's black community that are conveyed through the local news media. It asks the question: If a Bostonian relied solely on the local news for information about local blacks, what impressions would he or she be left with, and how representative of reality might those impressions be?
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Kirk A.
(1990)
"Media Images of Boston's Black Community,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol4/iss1/4
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons
