audience into thinking that one particular race is more involved in crimes than they truly are. The effect of this bias coverage is directly on the racial communities that are represented. Media networks hold exceeding power in the sense that they can influence how a person may perceive an issue that they presented. When the audience is consistently seeing African Americans as being suspects in crimes, it leaves the African American communities vulnerable to different stereotypes and biases, and may create misconceptions about race and crime. Journalist and cultural critic Kirsten West Savali argues the effect of media bias in her article “Throw Away the Script: How Media Bias is Killing Black America”. In this article, Savali references the
