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- catalog abstract "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 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 case studies of the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"--Disease, famine, death and war -- Moeller investigates 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. Throughout, we hear from industry insiders who tell of the chilling effect of the mega-media mergers, the tyranny of the bottomline hunt for profits, and the decline of the American attention span as they struggle to both tell and sell a story. But Moeller is insistent that the media need not, and should not, be run like any other business. The media have a special responsibility to the public, and when they abdicate this responsibility and the public lapses into a compassion fatigue stupor, we become a public at great danger to ourselves.".
- catalog contributor b10991810.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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 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 case studies of the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"--Disease, famine, death and war -- Moeller investigates 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. Throughout, we hear from industry insiders who tell of the chilling effect of the mega-media mergers, the tyranny of the bottomline hunt for profits, and the decline of the American attention span as they struggle to both tell and sell a story. But Moeller is insistent that the media need not, and should not, be run like any other business. The media have a special responsibility to the public, and when they abdicate this responsibility and the public lapses into a compassion fatigue stupor, we become a public at great danger to ourselves.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-372) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 390 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Compassion fatigue.".
- catalog identifier "0415920973 (hardbound : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780203900352 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Compassion fatigue.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
- catalog relation "Compassion fatigue.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "070.4/4936334 21".
- catalog subject "Disasters Press coverage United States.".
- catalog subject "PN4888.D57 M64 1998".
- catalog subject "Sensationalism in journalism United States.".
- catalog subject "Television broadcasting of news United States.".
- catalog subject "War Press coverage United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death / Susan D. Moeller.".
- catalog type "text".