Environmental Risks and the Media
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415214469
Subjects: Media Studies; The Environment; Nature; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Nature/Ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Environmental health; Environmental protection; Mass media and the environment; Press coverage
First sentence: The world of television news enacts tight editorial controls, controls that do not normally permit generous conditions of access to ordinary or lay voices and viewpoints.
Description: Considers the tension between entertainment and information in media coverage of environmental issues.