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37 “Pro-Lifers Use Breast Cancer as a Cheap Scare” (reprinted from TheEconomist), Chicago Tribune, 7 March 1996, p. 27; Susan Estrich, “Right Plays Politics with Breast Cancer,” Los Angeles Times, 1 February 1996, p. A11; Tina Rosenberg, “The Stealth War Against Abortion,” Rolling Stone, 27 June 1996, pp. 47-50.

38 Judith Koehler, “Abortion—Breast Cancer Link,” Chicago Tribune, 1 December 1995, p. 27; NPR, “All Things Considered,” 23 January 1996; J. R. Darling et al., “Risk of Breast Cancer Among Young Women: Relationship to Induced Abortion, ”Journal of the National Cancer Institute 86 (1994): 1584-92.

39 See Christine Gorman, “Do Abortions Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer?” Time, 7 November 1994, p. 61; Thomas Maugh, “Study Adds to Discourse on Cancer, Abortion,” Los Angeles Times, 12 October 1996, p. A17.

40 Alison Bass, “Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer Is Downplayed,” Boston Globe, 24 January 1996, p. 4; NPR, “All Things Considered,” 23 January 1996.

41 CNN, “Worldview,” 11 October 1996; Richard Knox, “Bias in Abortion Study Is Charged,” Boston Globe, 12 October 1996, p. A1.

42 See “Abortion and Gulf War Studies,” New York Times, 10 January 1997, p. A32; Jane Brody, “Big Study Finds No Link in Abortion and Cancer,” New York Times, 9 January 1997, p. A12.

43 Rick Weiss, “Study Disputes Breast Cancer, Abortion Link,” Washington Post, 9 January 1997, p. A1.

Chapter Two

1 Don Phillips, “Death in Detroit,” Washington Post, 20 March 1991, p. A1.

2 Amy Harmon, “Soldier Uninjured in War Is Killed in Detroit,” 19 March 1991, Los Angeles Times, p. A8; “Widow Found Guilty in Slaying of Gulf War Veteran,” Associated Press, 9 June 1994, p. A19.

3 Joe Treen et al., “The Murder of Gulf War Veteran Tony Riggs Was a Mystery-Then Detroit Police Arrested His Widow,” People, 8 April 1991, p. 111; “Wife Freed in Killing of GI Just Back from Gulf,” Chicago Tribune, 30 April 1991, p. A5.

4 Rhonda Gibson and Dolf Zillmann, “Exaggerated Versus Representative Exemplification in News Reports,” Communication Research 21 (1994): 603-24; Todd Burke and Charles O‘Rear, “Armed Carjacking,” Police Chief60 (1993): 18—23; Michael Rand, Carjacking, National Crime Victimization Survey (Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1994).

5 Coffey quote: David Shaw, “A Negative Spin on the News,” Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1996, p. A10.

6 John R. MacArthur, Lapdogs for the Pentagon Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992); Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, Stormin’ Norman: An American Hero (New York: Zebra Books, 1991); Eliot Cohen, “The Mystique of U.S. Air Power,” Foreign Affairs 73 (1994): 11—29; Edward Herman, “The Media’s Role in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Journal of International Affairs 47 (1993): 23—45; Daniel Hallin, “TV’s Clean Little War,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 47 (1991): 16-20. See also Jean Baudrillard, TheGulf War Did Not Take Place (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).

7 Anastasia Toufexis, “Workers Who Fight Firing with Fire,” Time, 25 April 1994, pp. 35—37.

8 Lara Wozniak, “Violence Growing as a Job Hazard,” St. Petersburg Times, 28 August 1994, p. H1. See also Tom Dunkel, “Newest Danger Zone: Your Office,” Working Woman 19 (1994): 38—45.

9 Erik Larson, “A False Crisis: How Workplace Violence Became a Hot Issue,” Wall StreetJournal,13 October 1994, pp. A1, 8. See also “Taxi Driving Termed Riskiest Job in U.S.,” New York Times, 9 July 1996, p. A9; Marlene Cimons, “Coping with Working Under the Gun, Literally,” Los Angeles Times, 11 June 1998, p. A5; Greg Warchol, Workplace Violence, 1992—96 (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 1998).

10 Donna Rosato, “New Industry Helps Managers Fight Violence,” USA Today, 5 August 1995.

11 “Violence in the Workplace Becoming More of a Problem,” Associated Press, 10 September 1995; Kirstin Downey Grimsley, “Risk of Homicide Is Higher in Retail Jobs,” Washington Post, 13 July 1997, p. A14; Larson, “False Crisis.”

12 See also Janice Lewis, “Workplace Violence,” RQ22 March 1995, p. 287.

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