Parachute journalism: the damage wrought by regional stereotypes

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lundstrom, Marjie (author / Senior Editor, Sacramento Bee)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2001-12-07
    URL:
    http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=4682
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23812
    Subject Term:
    coverage, image, mass media, media effectiveness, reporting, rural areas, rural communities, rural people, and rural-urban difference
    Notes:
    8 pages, Author criticizes the "often distorted accounts of places and the people who live there." Cites, as an example, the stereotypical media coverage of farming, farmers and Midwestern culture.

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