 According to Lawrence Grossman, former president of CBS News and PBS, TV newscasts "disproportionately show African Americans under arrest, living in slums, on welfare, and in need of help from the community".Similarly, Hurwitz and Peffley wrote that violent acts committed by a person of color often take up more than half of local news broadcasts, often portraying the person of color in a much more sinister light than their white counterparts.They argue that African Americans are not only more likely to be seen as suspects of horrendous crimes in the press, but also interpreted as being violent or harmful individuals to the general public.