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Book explores privacy vs. tell-all crime reporting
Western News, July 7, 2020
By Deborah Van Brenk
In the United States, it’s known as the ‘perp walk’ – a public parading of arrested suspects in front of media so everyone can share in the spectacle. While Americans love that kind of show, in other countries, however, the public is unlikely to know the names, let alone the faces, of those arrested and convicted of crimes.
In a soon-to be-published book, Media and Information Studies professor Romayne Smith Fullerton and Duquesne University professor Maggie Jones Patterson take a detailed look at public attitudes to crime and the media through case studies and interviews with journalists around the world about how and why they cover crime the way they do.
Murder in Our Midst: Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an Age of Globalized News argue that these different approaches serve as a mirror into attitudes about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, privacy and the public interest within each society.
