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Blaming the victim : how global journalism fails the poor / Jairo Lugo-Ocando.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lugo-Ocando, Jairo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Social problems in mass media.
- Poverty in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Pluto Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "Poverty is a recurrent theme in the news media, often linked to different underlying agendas. Issues such as famine, exclusion and conflict are regularly represented in the media as the consequence of poverty. However, there is no overarching consensus about what it is. Very different narratives and discourses shape the discussions of 'poverty' in the global news media. By so doing, journalists and news editors working for global media outlets often tend to obscure the structural causes of poverty and dismiss the very issue at the centre; that of inequality. This book deconstructs a spectrum of representations and misrepresentations of poverty in mainstream media outlets worldwide, investigating how and why poverty becomes newsworthy - and how the news media frames poverty, in ways that variously helps and hinders the public's understanding of poverty and its causes. The book looks at how journalistic ideologies, practices and news cultures define the way poverty is reported. It also examines issues such as the historical construction of discourses of poverty in the news and how news media represents visually poverty and inequality"-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The subjectivity of poverty
- The poverty of ideas in the newsroom
- with Steven Harkins
- What lies beneath?
- Africa, that scar on our face
- with Patrick O. Malaolu
- Visual journalism and global poverty
- with Scott Eldridge II
- Spinning poverty!
- The emergence of alternative voices
- Conclusion: Beyond the unsustainable news agenda.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 17, 2014).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783712274
- 1783712279
- 9781783712267
- 1783712260
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