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Reporting disasters : famine, aid, politics and the media / Suzanne Franks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849044943
  • 1849044945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reporting disasters.DDC classification:
  • 070.44936334 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.D57
Online resources:
Contents:
How famine captured the headlines -- Global story : national response -- A revolution in giving -- Misunderstanding the famine : telling the story wrong -- The humanitarian dilemma -- The agencies and the media -- Interpreting Africa -- Real media effects.
Summary: Using privileged access to BBC and Government archives, 'Reporting Disasters' examines and reveals the internal factors which drove BBC news and offers a rare case study of how the media can affect public opinion and policymaking. It constructs the process that accounts for the immensity of the news event, following the response at the heart of government to the pressure of public opinion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

How famine captured the headlines -- Global story : national response -- A revolution in giving -- Misunderstanding the famine : telling the story wrong -- The humanitarian dilemma -- The agencies and the media -- Interpreting Africa -- Real media effects.

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Using privileged access to BBC and Government archives, 'Reporting Disasters' examines and reveals the internal factors which drove BBC news and offers a rare case study of how the media can affect public opinion and policymaking. It constructs the process that accounts for the immensity of the news event, following the response at the heart of government to the pressure of public opinion.

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