Title: Compassion Fatigue
Subtitle: how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death
First published: September 23, 1998
Description: In her impassioned new book, Compassion Fatigue, Susan Moeller warns that the American media threaten our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the media cover the world in the way that they do? Are they simply following the marketplace demand for tabloid-style international news? Or are they creating an audience that has seen too much - or too little - to care?

Through a series of studies of the "four horsemen of the Apocalypse" - disease, famine, war and death - Moeller investigate how newspapers, newsmagazines and television have covered international crises over the last two decades, identifying the ruts into which the media have fallen - and revealing why.
Subjects: Press coverage, Disasters, Television broadcasting of news, Sensationalism in journalism, War, Mort dans la presse, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Sensationnalisme, Berichtgeving, Berichterstattung, E pide mies dans la presse, Journalism, Te le vision, Dans les me dias, Massamedia, Guerre, Catastrophes, Mass media, Catastrophes dans la presse, Famines dans la presse, E missions de nouvelles, Guerre dans la presse, Social aspects, Massenmedien, Sensatie, Katastrophe, Sensationnalisme dans la presse, Meinungsbildung, Dans la presse, Journalism, united states, Mass media, social aspects, War and society, Couverture de presse, Télévision, Émissions de nouvelles, Sensationnalisme journalistique, Épidémies dans la presse, Katastrophē, Journalism & Communications, Dans les médias
Places: United States
LC classification: PN4888.D57 M64 1998