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Author Franks, Suzanne, author.

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

Publication Info. London : Hurst & Company, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Disasters -- Press coverage -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Disasters -- Press coverage.
Famines -- Press coverage -- Ethiopia.
Famines.
Press coverage.
Ethiopia.
Journalism -- Political aspects.
Journalism -- Political aspects.
Mass media and public opinion.
Mass media and public opinion.
Ethiopia -- Social conditions -- 1974-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1974-
Subject Economic assistance -- Ethiopia.
Economic assistance.
Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 20th century
Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Franks, Suzanne. Reporting disasters. London : Hurst & Company, 2013 9781849042888 1849042888 (DLC) 2012276464 (OCoLC)820782072
ISBN 9781849044943 (electronic book)
1849044945 (electronic book)
9781849042888
1849042888