http://alternet.org/columnists/story/26507/

In a 2003 Penn State University study, researchers asked white participants
to examine newspaper pictures of black and white crime suspects. Later they
asked them whom the stories had highlighted. In nearly every case, the
respondents incorrectly said that the suspects were black. The researchers
blamed what they called the "mismemory" of whites on who commits crime on
the top-heavy media emphasis on black crime.

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