Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.
Hailed as "great accomplishment" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan Moeller's Compassion Fatigue 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 d...
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Routledge,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Compassion fatigue
- Covering pestilence: sensationalizing epidemic disease
- Mad cows and Englishmen
- Ebola
- Covering famine: the famine formula
- Ethiopia
- Sudan and Somalia
- Covering death: the Americanization of assassinations
- Covering war: getting graphic about genocide
- Conclusion.