by Derrick Z. Jackson | Boston Globe
Wednesday, September 10, 1997
A study from Berkeley Media Studies Group, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found that 55 percent of news stories on youth involved violence, and 68 percent of stories about violence involved youth -- numbers that bear no resemblance to real rates of crime involving youth.by Lori Dorfman | Prevention Pipeline
Monday, September 01, 1997
Stories on alcohol rarely appear on network TV, local TV or in newspapers. There are several reasons why we should be concerned about the dearth of news on alcohol, which BMSG director Lori Dorfman explores in this article.by Katie Woodruff | San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, August 15, 1997
By focusing on educating women about the risks of rape drugs, Attorney General Janet Reno's campaign to fight such drugs essentially holds women responsible for preventing their own rape. Instead, she should be focused on stopping men from raping in the first place.by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, April 05, 1997
Involvement in the arts and music helps prepare young people for the responsibilities of adult life. Investing in such programs is sound economic policy and smart public policy.by Lori Dorfman | Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, March 18, 1997
Alcohol is the country's No. 1 drug problem, but ABC's public service advertising is not the way to address it. Raising alcohol's price through excise taxes is.by Phyllis Orrick, Susan Rasky | SF Weekly
Wednesday, January 15, 1997
Berkeley Media Studies Group and its partners at Coleman Advocates, a San Francisco-based welfare rights group, are training a group of San Francisco parents to get their voices heard in the media, making sure the opinions and needs of ordinary citizens -- women and children in particular -- don't go unnoticed.by Katie Woodruff | San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, October 14, 1996
BMSG's Katie Woodruff commends the Chronicle for a front-page article that illustrated the connection between violence and economic conditions in East Palo Alto. Also promising, writes Woodruff, was city officials' recognition that increasing economic opportunity -- not police -- is key to reducing crime.by Lawrence Wallack | The New York Times
Thursday, July 04, 1996
The proliferation of guns, increasing income disparities, the widespread availability of alcohol, and funding prisons over schools have created a recipe for youth crime. Youth did not create the policies that led to these conditions. Yet, as BMSG co-director Lawrence Wallack points out, society vilifies youth when these conditions prove harmful.
by Lori Dorfman | Columbia Journalism Review
Monday, July 01, 1996
In response to an article regarding a KVUE experiment with crime coverage in Austin, BMSG's Lori Dorfman challenges KVUE to go even further. She submits that reporters should link their questions to an understanding of public health data on violence.by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Examiner
Friday, January 26, 1996
BMSG director Lori Dorfman takes on an Examiner editorial that urged the University of California Board of Regents to rescind its decision to abolish the use of preferential admissions. The editorial, she writes, rests on assumptions that the regents' action was politically motivated and violated academic freedom.
