Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, EXXON Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake

by Conrad Smith

Book Overview

This book is a critical examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported three catastrophes. The focus is on the processes by which journalists identified news sources and gathered data, on the professional values of the journalists and on the ways that those values contributed to or interfered with good reporting. The book is based on examination of several thousand newspaper and television stories, on surveys of more than 600...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313277257
• ISBN13: 9780313277252
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"