Media echoes: Systemic effects of news coverage

摘要: This paper examines the effect of massive media coverage on a judicial system by analyzing 3,453 felony cases tried over 10-year period. The span five years preceding and following two heavily covered daycare child abuse trials in Miami, Florida. Significant case-processing shifts provide evidence “echo” effects, which have been hypothesized to exist literature but not established empirically. High-profile case publicity echoes are thought reverberate through systems condition them process similarly charged nonpublicized differently than they would processed otherwise. Because affect low-profile cases, news expand effects far beyond single high-profile cases. Although significant echo is found this study, it does extend all possible processing effects. need empirically study other jurisdictions indi...