Beard Jessica H, Raissian Raha, Roberts Leah, Partain Laura, Midberry Jennifer, Walker Tia, Trombley Shannon, MacMillan Jim, Morrison Christopher N
Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Prev Med Rep. 2024 Apr 20;42:102739. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102739. eCollection 2024 Jun.
To better understand how community firearm violence (CFV) is communicated to the public, we aimed to identify systematic differences between the characteristics of shooting victims and events covered on television news and all shootings in Philadelphia, PA, a city with escalating CFV incidence.
We compiled a stratified sample of local television news clips covering shootings that occurred in Philadelphia aired on two randomly selected days per month from January-June 2021 (n = 154 clips). We coded the clips to determine demographic and geographic information about the shooting victims and events and then matched coded shootings with corresponding shootings in the Philadelphia police database. We compared characteristics of shooting victims and shooting event locations depicted in television clips (n = 62) with overall characteristics of shootings in Philadelphia during the study period (n = 1082).
Compared to all individuals shot, victims whose shootings were covered on local television news more likely to be children and more likely to be shot in a mass shooting The average median household income of shooting locations featured on television was significantly higher than the median household income across all shooting locations ($60,302 for television shootings vs. $41,233 for all shootings; p = 0.002). Shootings featured on television occurred in areas with lower rates of income inequality and racialized economic segregation compared to all shooting locations.
Television news outlets in Philadelphia systematically over-reported shootings of children, mass shootings, and shootings that occurred in neighborhoods with higher median household income, less socioeconomic inequality, and lower rates of racialized economic segregation.
为了更好地了解社区枪支暴力（CFV）是如何向公众传播的，我们旨在确定枪击受害者的特征与电视新闻报道的事件以及宾夕法尼亚州费城所有枪击事件之间的系统性差异，费城的CFV发生率正在不断上升。
我们编制了一个分层样本，其中包括2021年1月至6月每月随机选择的两天在费城播出的关于枪击事件的当地电视新闻片段（n = 154个片段）。我们对这些片段进行编码，以确定枪击受害者和事件的人口统计和地理信息，然后将编码的枪击事件与费城警方数据库中的相应枪击事件进行匹配。我们将电视片段（n = 62）中描绘的枪击受害者和枪击事件地点的特征与研究期间费城枪击事件的总体特征（n = 1082）进行了比较。
与所有被枪击的人相比，当地电视新闻报道的枪击事件的受害者更有可能是儿童，也更有可能在大规模枪击事件中被击中。电视上报道的枪击地点的平均家庭收入中位数显著高于所有枪击地点的家庭收入中位数（电视报道的枪击事件为60,302美元，所有枪击事件为41,233美元；p = 0.002）。与所有枪击地点相比，电视上报道的枪击事件发生在收入不平等率和种族化经济隔离率较低的地区。
费城的电视新闻媒体系统性地过度报道了儿童枪击事件、大规模枪击事件以及发生在家庭收入中位数较高、社会经济不平等较少和种族化经济隔离率较低社区的枪击事件。
