Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.
Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.
Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.
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Publisher
New York ; London : Routledge, 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0382704
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Riding with the Four Horsemen -- 1. Compassion Fatigue -- 2. Covering Pestilence: Sensationalizing Epidemic Disease -- 3. Covering Famine: The Famine Formula -- 4. Covering Death: The Americanization of Assassinations -- 5. Covering War: Getting Graphic About Genocide.
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Publisher
New York ; London : Routledge, 1999.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
In her impassioned new book, Compassion Fatigue, Susan Moeller warns that the American media threaten 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...
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Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-372) and index.
Transferred from N070.44936/2.
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T0382704
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74Vvo5JXaLab
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ISBN
0415920973
9780415920988 (pbk.) :
0415920981 (pbk.) :
9780415920971 :
0415920973 :
9780415920971 (hardbound : alk. paper)
0415920973 (hardbound : alk. paper)
9780415920988
0415920981
9780415920971
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070.44936334
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991013412499702626
