by John McManus, Lori Dorfman | Oakland Tribune
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
Child care ought to be newsworthy, yet as former BMSG researcher John McManus and current director Lori Dorfman show in this article, it is barely visible in American newspapers. In fact, McManus and Dorfman's research reveals that California newspapers average just two stories per year about child care in their business sections, even though the industry generates as much money per year in California as vegetable crops or livestock.by Lori Dorfman, Vincent Schiraldi | Los Angeles Times
Sunday, April 15, 2001
What Americans see and hear about youth in the news bears little resemblance to young people's real lives. Repeated images of students as schoolhouse killers, coupled with the absence of more balanced depictions of youth in general, have stereotyped youth as violent and depraved. BMSG director Lori Dorfman and Vincent Schiraldi of the Justice Policy Institute explain why this is damaging to the public and how the news media can improve its coverage of youth.by Lori Dorfman, Vincent Schiraldi | San Diego Union Tribune
Friday, April 13, 2001
Do we get enough information from the news to understand violence among youth? To answer that question, BMSG director Lori Dorfman and Justice Policy Institute president Vincent Schiraldi analyzed more than 100 scientific studies of news content of youth and crime. Their findings, explained in this article, are disturbing.by David Sarasohn | The Oregonian
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
If you get your information on youth from the media, you likely think young people are much more violent than they really are. That’s the conclusion of Off Balance: Youth, Race and Crime in the News, a report from Berkeley Media Studies Group. The report found that throughout the 1990s, as juvenile crime went down, stories on juvenile crime went up.
by Erin Texeira | Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
A report from Berkeley Media Studies Group shows that the media's focus on youth violence, especially among youth of color, is out of proportion to the problem. Media tend to overreport stories with youth and ethnic minorities as criminals and underreport instances in which they are victims.by Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
The media are providing a distorted view of adolescents and crime, leaving the impression that violence runs amok, youths are doomed and that black kids deserve much of the blame, says a report from Berkeley Media Studies Group.by Lori Dorfman | AlterNet
Monday, November 27, 2000
Cigarette maker Philip Morris recently spent $2 million on domestic violence programs nationally and $108 million on the advertising campaign to tell us about it. Tobacco can't be advertised on TV, but tobacco makers' token support of good causes can. BMSG director Lori Dorfman tells us why the company's contribution to domestic violence has nothing to do with giving to charity and everything to do with telling us what a good corporate citizen it is. This story is reprinted from Prevention File.by staff | San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, November 27, 2000
Tobacco giant Philip Morris is trying to deflect attention from its production of deadly products by pumping millions of dollars into charities such as domestic violence programs. BMSG director Lori Dorfman says that the company's charitable contributions are nothing more than a line item in their advertising budget.by David Shaw | Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Berkeley Media Studies Group was a source for this story on portrayals of children in the news. Coverage often characterizes children in a negative light, reporting on them as they relate to school shootings, drugs and sexual abuse. But a growing number of journalists are trying to change that. They are broadening their coverage to include everyday issues like child care and homework.by Kevin Fagan | San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, April 24, 2000
A study analyzing coverage of youth violence issues in California concludes that newspapers create a misleading and frightening picture of violence and its dangers to kids. The study, from BMSG, offers recommendations on how journalists can broaden their reporting from only asking what happened to investigating potential reasons such as gun accessibility to understand why it did.
