Journalism in a culture of grief
By: Carolyn Kitch and Janice Hume
Contributors: Hume, Janice
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780415980098; 9780415980104
Subjects: Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States; Grief -- Social aspects -- United States; Mass media and culture -- United States; Death in popular culture -- United States; Death in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-236) and index
Table of contents: title: At war with nature : coverage of natural disaster fatalities; title: Death rites interrupted : responsibility and remembrance in coverage of the Tri-State Crematory scandal and Hurricane Katrina; title: Who speaks for the dead? Authority and authenticity in news coverage of the Amish school shootings; title: Life and death in a small town : cultural values and memory in community newspaper obituaries; title: "It takes a sinner to appreciate the blinding glare of grace" : redeeming the "dark" celebrity; title: "We can't keep losing our kids" : fear, blame, and mourning in press coverage of teen deaths; title: Mourning "men joined in peril and purpose" : working-class heroism in news report of the Sago miners' story; title: "Portraits of grief" and stories that heal : the public funeral for victims of September 11; title: Reporting on "a grieving army of Americans" : citizen testimony in the misremembering of Ronald Reagan; title: "All the fellows that went on before me" : tribute, memory, and counter-memory among veterans of "the good war"