Violence, crime and the local press in a provincial city of Greece.
Stratos Georgoulas, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean Introduction This paper’s basic affair of work is that the press, through the presentation of criminal incidents, transmits an evaluative knowledge determining this way, desirable objectives and propagating for canonistic types of behaviour. The daily knowledge as a constitutive element of the daily reality is a condition of interaction between the members of a society. In that sense, the local press that transmits this daily knowledge constitutes a dominant structuring factor of this reality. My research which is based on content analysis of newspaper articles of the whole local press of Mytilene (the capital of the prefecture of Lesbos in Greece) published between January – March 2004 and additional interviews from journalists aims to illustrate the following: a. The concept of criminality is being constructed both qualitatively and quantitatively through local press and not vice versa. b. The local press evaluates ne...