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Author Moeller, Susan D.

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

Imprint New York : Routledge, 1999.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  070.4493633 M722c    ---  Available
Description viii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-372) and index.
Contents Compassion fatigue -- Covering pestilence : sensationalizing epidemic disease -- Mad cows and Englishmen -- Ebola -- Covering famine : the famine formula -- Ethiopia -- Sudan and Somalia -- Covering death : the Americanization of assassinations -- Covering war : getting graphic about genocide -- Conclusion.
Subject Disasters -- Press coverage.
War -- Press coverage.
Television broadcasting of news.
Sensationalism in journalism.
ISBN 0415920973 (hardbound : alk. paper)

 
    
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