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Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moeller, Susan D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Local Subjects:
- Disasters.
- Sensationalism in journalism.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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?
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-372) and index.
- 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
- 9780203900352
- OCLC:
- 560047544
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