Moeller, Susan D.

Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller. - New York : Routledge, 1999. - viii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-372) and index.

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.

0415920973 (hbk.)


Disasters--Press coverage--United States.
War--Press coverage--United States.
Television broadcasting of news--United States.
Sensationalism in journalism--United States.

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