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Reporting Disasters - Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media (Paperback)
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Reporting Disasters - Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media (Paperback)
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The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic
news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented
impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public
opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The
contemporary international configuration of aid, media pressure,
and official policy is still directly affected and sometimes
distorted by what was - - as this narrative shows - - also an
inaccurate and misleading story. In popular memory, the reporting
of Ethiopia and the resulting humanitarian intervention were a
great success. Yet alternative interpretations give a radically
different picture of misleading journalism and an aid effort which
did more harm than good. Using privileged access to BBC and
Government archives, Reporting Disasters ex- amines and reveals the
internal factors which drove BBC news and offers a rare case study
of how the media can affect public opinion and policymaking. It
constructs the process that accounts for the immensity of the news
event, following the response at the heart of government to the
pressure of public opinion. And it shows that while the reporting
and the altruistic festival that it produced triggered remarkable
and identifiable changes, the on- going impact was not what the
conventional account claims it to have been.
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