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Blaming the Victim - How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (Paperback)
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Blaming the Victim - How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (Paperback)
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Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the
result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim,
Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the
variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and
decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide.
The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty -
inequality - is removed from their accounts. The books asks many
biting questions. When - and how - does poverty become newsworthy?
How does ideology come into play when determining the ways in which
'poverty' is constructed in newsrooms - and how do the resulting
narratives frame the issue? And why do so many journalists and news
editors tend to obscure the structural causes of poverty? In
analysing the processes of news production and presentation around
the world, Lugo-Ocando reveals that the news-makers' agendas are
often as problematic as the geopolitics they seek to represent.
This groundbreaking study reframes the ways in which we can think
and write about the enduring global injustice of poverty.
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