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51 Richard Gelles, “Violence Toward Men: Fact or Fiction?” paper prepared for the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs, September 1994; James Ledbetter, “Press Clips,” Village Voice, 21 May 1996, p. 25. Quotes from Richard Gelles, “Domestic Battering,” TheTennessean, 1 November 1994. For further evidence see Russell Dobash et al., “The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence,” Social Problems 39 (1992): 71—91; Jack Straton, “The Myth of the ’Battered Husband Syndrome‘,” Masculinities 2 (1994): 79-82; Pam Belluck, “A Woman’s Killer Is Likely to Be Her Partner, a Study Finds,” New York Times, 31 March 1997, p. A12; Karen Peterson, “Partners Unequal in Abuse,” USA Today, 8 November 1997, p. D1.
52 Larry Elder at KABC radio in Los Angeles was among the talk show hosts who reiterated the claims late in the 1990s.
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1 Glenn Loury, “Unequalized,” New Republic, 6 April 1998, pp. 10—11; Janet Hook, “Clinton Offers Plan to Close Health Gap,” Los Angeles Times, 22 February 1998, p.A20; Pam Belluck, “Black Youths’ Rate of Suicide Rising Sharply,” New York Times, 20 March 1998, p. A1. See also David Shaffer et al., “Worsening Suicide Rate in Black Teenagers,” American Journal ofPsychiatry151 (1994): 1810-12. On my selection and use of statistics see note 2 in the Introduction.
2 Caryl Rivers, Slick Spins and Fractured Facts (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), p. 161; David Krajicek, Scooped(New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); Robert Elias, “Official Stories,” Humanist 54 (1994): 3-8; Bill Kovach, “Opportunity in the Racial Divide,” Nieman Reports 49 (1995): 2; Franklin Gilliam, Shanto Iyengar et al., “Crime in Black and White,” Working Paper, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA, September 1995; Mark Fitzgerald, “Covering Crime in Black and White,” Editor and Publisher, 10 September 1994, pp. 12-13; Carey Quan Gelernter, “A Victim’s Worth,” Seattle Times, 28 June 1994, p. El; Suzan Revah, “Paying More Attention to White Crime Victims,” American Journalism Review (1995): 10-11; Bruce Shapiro, “One Violent Crime,” Nation, 3 April 1995, pp. 437, 445-52; Bruce Shapiro, “Unkindest Cut,” New Statesman 8 (14 April 1995): 23; Gregory Freeman, “Media Bias?” St. Louis Post-Dispatch,14 November 1993, p. B4; Debra Saunders, “Heeding the Ghost of Ophelia,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 September, 1995, p. A19.
3 Arnold Barnett, “How Numbers Can Trick You,” Technology Review 97 (1994): 38-44; Karen Smith, “Tourism Industry Tries to Reduce Visitors’ Fears,” Ann Arbor News, 16 January 1994, p. D5. See also Kim Cobb, “Media May Be Fanning a New Deadly Crime,” Houston Chronicle, 18 September 1993, p. A1; Bill Kaczor, “Crimes Against Tourists Worry Florida Officials,” Ann Arbor News, 24 February 1993, p. A7; James Bernstein, “Violence Threatens to Kill Florida’s Winter Vacation Business,” 2 November 1993, p. A1.
4 Henry Brownstein, “The Media and the Construction of Random Drug Violence,” SocialJustice18 (1993): 85-103; and my own analysis of Dennis Hevesi, “Drug Wars Don’t Pause to Spare the Innocent,” New York Times, 22 January 1989, p. A1.
5 Brownstein, “The Media and the Construction.” See also Maggie Mulvihill and Joseph Mallia, “Boston Police ‘Sorry’ for Fatal Mistake,” Boston Herald, 27 March 1994, p. 1 ;Joe Hallinan, “Misfires in War on Drugs,” ThePlain Dealer, 26 September 1993, p. A17; Andrew Schneider, “Botched Drug Raid Leaves Deep Distrust,” Arizona Republic, 14 September 1995, p. A1.
6 Robert Davis and Sam Meddis, “Random Killings Hit a High,” USA Today, 5 December 1994, p. A1; Richard Moran, “Morning Edition,” 18 April 1996. The FBI report was the Uniform Crime Report for 1993.
7 Jill Smolowe, “Danger in the