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Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Paperback, New)
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Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Paperback, New)
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This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American
journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and
enactments of public grief, which has returned to an almost
Victorian level. A number of researchers have begun to address this
growing collective preoccupation with death in modern life; few
scholars, however, have studied the central forum for the
conveyance and construction of public grief today: news media. News
reports about death have a powerful impact and cultural authority
because they bring emotional immediacy to matters of fact, telling
stories of real people who die in real circumstances and real
people who mourn them. Moreover, through news media, a broader
audience mourns along with the central characters in those stories,
and, in turn, news media cover the extended rituals. Journalism in
a Culture of Grief examines this process through a range of types
of death and types of news media. It discusses the reporting of
horrific events such as September 11 and Hurricane Katrina; it
considers the cultural role of obituaries and the instructive work
of coverage of teens killed due to their own risky behaviors; and
it assesses the role of news media in conducting national,
patriotic memorial rituals.
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