Compassion fatigue: how the media sell disease, famine, war and death
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...
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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 - or too little - to care? Through a series of studies of the "four horsemen of the Apocalypse" - disease, famine, war and death - Moeller investigate 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. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Introduction:
ONE
Compassion Fatigue
The Practice of Journalism and Compassion Fatigue
Images and Compassion Fatigue
TWO
Covering Pestilence: Sensationalizing Epidemic Disease
Mad Cows and Englishmen: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease,
Britain, March
The Doomsday Disease: Ebola, Zaire, May
THREE
Covering Famine: The Famine Formula
The Archetypal Media Famine: Ethiopia,
Fall and Winter
Just How Much of a Disaster Does a Disaster Have to Be?
Sudan and Somalia,
FOUR
Covering Death: The Americanization of Assassinations
Death in the Indian Subcontinent: Indian Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi, Wednesday, October
&
Wednesday, August
viii
Death in the Middle East: Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat,
Thursday, October
Yitzhak Rabin, Saturday, November
FIVE
Covering War: Getting Graphic About Genocide
Poison Gas, Deportation and Execution: Iraq s
Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds,
February-August
Ethnic Cleansing : The Death Camps in Bosnia,
August
Acts of Genocide : Rwanda, April-August
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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