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Journalism in a culture of grief
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Title
Journalism in a culture of grief / Carolyn Kitch and Janice Hume.
ISBN
0203942000
1135862095
1135862133
1135862141
9780203942000
9781135862091
9781135862138
9781135862145
0415980097
0415980100
9780415980098
9780415980104
Published
New York : Routledge, ©2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 247 pages)
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Summary
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 wh.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Kitch, Carolyn L. Journalism in a culture of grief. New York : Routledge, ©2008
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-236) and index.
Contents
At war with nature : coverage of natural disaster fatalities
Death rites interrupted : responsibility and remembrance in coverage of the Tri-State Crematory scandal and Hurricane Katrina
Who speaks for the dead? Authority and authenticity in news coverage of the Amish school shootings
Life and death in a small town : cultural values and memory in community newspaper obituaries
It takes a sinner to appreciate the blinding glare of grace : redeeming the dark celebrity
We can't keep losing our kids : fear, blame, and mourning in press coverage of teen deaths
Mourning men joined in peril and purpose : working-class heroism in news report of the Sago miners' story
Portraits of grief and stories that heal : the public funeral for victims of September 11
Reporting on a grieving army of Americans : citizen testimony in the misremembering of Ronald Reagan
All the fellows that went on before me : tribute, memory, and counter-memory among veterans of the good war.
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