Moreno, Jonathan; Ouss, Aurélie; Bayer, Patrick J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States ….g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs - that obfuscate responsibility for police killings compared to civilian … hold a police officer morally responsible for a killing and to demand penalties after reading a story that uses obfuscatory …