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Copaganda : how police and the media manipulate our news / Alec Karakatsanis.

By: Publisher: New York : The New Press, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Description: 400 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781620978535
  • 1620978539
Other title:
  • How police and the media manipulate our news
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.20973 23/eng/20250106
Contents:
Introduction: What is copaganda? -- What is crime news? -- The volume of crime news -- Moral panics and the selective curation of anecdote -- Policing public relations -- Whose perspective? How sources shape the news -- Academic copaganda -- How bad academic research becomes news -- Keywords of copaganda: Smuggling ideology into the news -- Copaganda against change -- Progressives want a pro-crime hellscape -- What we don't know can hurt us -- Polls and making cops look good -- The bad apple -- The big deception -- Distracting from material conditions -- Resisting copaganda.
Summary: "'Copaganda' is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society's responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970--despite record low crime rates--a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why. Capaganda is all around us. When you hear on the radio that crime is up when it's actually down--that's copaganda. When your local TV station obsessively focuses on shoplifting by poor people while ignoring crimes of wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution that harm far more people--that's copaganda. When you hear on your daily podcast that there is a 'shortage' of prison guards rather than too many people in prison--that's copaganda. When your newspaper quotes an 'expert' saying that more money for police, prosecutors, and prisons is the answer to violence despite scientific evidence to the contrary--that's copaganda. Recognized by Teen Vogue as 'one of the most prominent voices' on the criminal legal system and a featured guest on shows like The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Breakfast Club, Karakatsanis brings sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous storytelling to delve into one of the most critical topics in our society today." -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What is copaganda? -- What is crime news? -- The volume of crime news -- Moral panics and the selective curation of anecdote -- Policing public relations -- Whose perspective? How sources shape the news -- Academic copaganda -- How bad academic research becomes news -- Keywords of copaganda: Smuggling ideology into the news -- Copaganda against change -- Progressives want a pro-crime hellscape -- What we don't know can hurt us -- Polls and making cops look good -- The bad apple -- The big deception -- Distracting from material conditions -- Resisting copaganda.

"'Copaganda' is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society's responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970--despite record low crime rates--a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why. Capaganda is all around us. When you hear on the radio that crime is up when it's actually down--that's copaganda. When your local TV station obsessively focuses on shoplifting by poor people while ignoring crimes of wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution that harm far more people--that's copaganda. When you hear on your daily podcast that there is a 'shortage' of prison guards rather than too many people in prison--that's copaganda. When your newspaper quotes an 'expert' saying that more money for police, prosecutors, and prisons is the answer to violence despite scientific evidence to the contrary--that's copaganda. Recognized by Teen Vogue as 'one of the most prominent voices' on the criminal legal system and a featured guest on shows like The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Breakfast Club, Karakatsanis brings sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous storytelling to delve into one of the most critical topics in our society today." -- Provided by publisher.