Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war and death
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Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war and death
Routledge, 1999
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-372) and index
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: hard ISBN 9780415920971
Description
In her impassioned new book, Compassion Fatigue, Moeller warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the media cover the world in the way that they do? Are they simply following the marketplace demand for tabloid-style international news? Or are they creating an audience that has seen too much--or too little--to care? Through a series of case studies of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"--disease, famine, death and war--Moeller investigates how newspapers, newsmagazines and television have covered international crises over the last two decades, identifying the ruts into which the media have fallen and revealing why.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415920988
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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Riding with the Four Horsemen, ONE Compassion Fatigue, TWO Covering Pestilence: Sensationalizing Epidemic Disease, THREE Covering Famine: The Famine Formula, FOUR Covering Death: The Americanization of Assassinations, FIVE Covering War: Getting Graphic About Genocide, Conclusion, Notes, Acknowledgments, Index
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