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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829288503321

Autore

Moeller Susan D.

Titolo

Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / / Susan D. Moeller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

0-415-90926-0

1-138-17358-4

1-135-96307-X

1-135-96308-8

1-280-40703-4

0-203-90035-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

070.44936334

302.230973

Soggetti

Disasters

Sensationalism in journalism

Television broadcasting of news

War

Disasters - Press coverage - United States

War - Press coverage - United States

Television broadcasting of news - United States

Sensationalism in journalism - United States

Journalism

Journalism & Communications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-372) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: Riding with the Four Horsemen; Compassion Fatigue; Covering Pestilence: Sensationalizing Epidemic Disease; Covering Famine: The Famine Formula; Covering Death: The Americanization of Assassinations; Covering War: Getting Graphic About Genocide; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Susan D. Moeller asks why international news has become tabloid in



style and light on content - is  this a response to audience demands, or does it create a particular sort of audience, one which has seen too much to care?