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Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.

By: Moeller, Susan D.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 1999Description: viii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415920973 (hbk.).Subject(s): Disasters -- Press coverage -- United States | War -- Press coverage -- United States | Television broadcasting of news -- United States | Sensationalism in journalism -- United StatesDDC classification: 070.44936334
Contents:
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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Main Collection Taylor's Library-TU
070.44936334 MOE (Browse shelf) 1 Available SOMAC,09030,03,CL 1001006119

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.