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Yes, media sensationalists did contribute to mass incarceration. They had made things worse, posting things in papers that made the war on 🤬 seemed worst for certain race's then it had to be.

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Sensationalist media coverage contributed to mass incarceration by giving the image that black African-Americans are really snakes and are the reason for the "drug outbreak". With the definition of Sensationalist being "use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy in order to provoke public interest oe excitement." clearly, the video provided the push needed for people to believe that black people are the problem. The snake resembles the idea that black people are the sneaky ones passing out 🤬. Simply the government wants you to believe that getting rid of black people will get rid of the drug problem.

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yes, sensationalist media coverage did contribute to mass incarceration because it was made to provoke the truth and they decided to make African-Americans look bad without knowing the real story. They want to add more to the story to make it seem like all black people are drug addicts and are no good making the world look at us like we are no good.

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In my opinion it helped a little bit because in the passage it says " in 1985 media reports focused on 🤬 and the prison rates increased
so media coverage did help but not really a lot

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YES, i believ it did because its showing how black people are becoming things they shouldnt be

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yes, I believe that sensationalist media coverage did contribute to mass incarceration because it was made to show the truth and they decided to display that  African-Americans look bad without knowing the real story. They want to add untrue things  to the story to make it seem like all black people are addicted to 🤬 and are no good making the world view us in a one sided point of view which is unfair ...

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when black people do 🤬 they get sent to jail with no help or treatment but when white people do it, its no problem and they get treatment fast with no comment.

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the media did not help black people during the "war on 🤬" because the  commercials that they produced made black people look like monsters.In the video it showed a black guy beginning to talk about the bad decisions that he will make you do. In the end,he turned into a  monster,and that made people not want to help black people with their drug addiction.

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Yes it did,because it caused manipulation to the truth of the story that made people want to go against what they were actually putting out on the news and showing to people.However, news outlets in 1985 would only focus on the idea of "crack babies", and this shows there really wasn't no actual panic about these infants that came from mothers who were crack addicts.Throughout that time period, there were punitive laws-inflicting or intended as punishment-that in the media crack reached suburb areas in which we know today is the more impoverished areas.

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It's a good thing that media painted everyone that ever took 🤬 as a violent criminal #lock 'em up

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Essential Question:
" Did sensationalist media coverage contribute to mass incarceration?"

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WPIX 1991 Anti-Drug PSA #2: Drugdealer Transforms Into A Snake

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