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Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death
Title:
Compassion fatigue : how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death
Author:
Moeller, Susan D.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 1999.
Physical Description:
viii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
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.
Reading Level:
1370 Lexile.
ISBN:
9780415920971
Format :
Book