Compassion Fatigue

How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-92097-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moeller, Susan D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Riding with the Four Horsemen 1. Compassion Fatigue, The Practice of Journalism and Compassion Fatigue Images and Compassion Fatigue 2. Covering Pestilence: Sensationalizing Epidemic Disease, Mad Cows and Englishmen: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Britain, March 1996; The Doomsday Disease: Ebola, Zaire, May 1995 3. Covering Famine: The Famine Formula, The Archetypal Media Famine: Ethiopia; Fall and Winter 1984-1985; Just How Much of a Disaster Does a Disaster Have to Be? Sudan and Somalia, 1991-1993 4. Covering Death: The Americanization of Assassinations; Death in the Indian Subcontinent: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Wednesday, October 31, 1984, & Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, Wednesday, August 17, 1988; Death in the Middle East: Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, Thursday, October 6, 1981, & Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Saturday, November 4, 1995 5. Covering War: Getting Graphic About Genocide; Poison Gas, Deportation and Execution: Iraq's Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds,February-August 1988; Ethnic Cleansing: The Death Camps in Bosnia, August 1992; Acts of Genocide: Rwanda, April-August 1994; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Susan D. Moeller is Director of the Journalism Program and Associate Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. She has worked as a journalist for national magazines and newspapers and is the author of Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat (1989).