@article{775344,
      recid = {775344},
      author = {Hrach, Thomas J.,},
      title = {The Riot Report and the news : how the Kerner Commission  changed media coverage of Black America /},
      pages = {ix, 164 pages ;},
      abstract = {"On July 28, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson established  the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to  investigate the causes of unrest in urban black communities  during the 1960s. Chaired by Illinois governor Otto Kerner  Jr., the commission ominously warned, "Our nation is moving  toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and  unequal." And it aimed its sharpest criticism at the  mainstream media, concluding: "The press has too long  basked in a white world, looking out of it, if at all, with  white men's eyes and a white perspective." Major news media  responded by expanding and diversifying their coverage of  black communities and increasing the number of African  Americans in their newsrooms. Although much has been  written about the Kerner Commission, the analysis has  focused primarily on its affect on the American press. In  The Riot Report and the News, Thomas J. Hrach instead  explores how the commission came to its conclusions, in  order to understand why and how its report served as a  catalyst for change. Hrach finds that such government  criticism of the media can have a long-term and positive  influence on the nation, an insight that remains important  as the news continues to struggle with how to cover issues  of race" -- From the publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/775344},
}