Written at a time when disasters both natural - drought, famine - and manmade - the war in Yugoslavia, civil strike in South Africa - fill our TV screens and newspapers, and when politicians are arguing over how many refugees Britain should accept, this book examines the way in which relief agencies and the media interact, and illustrates many of the organizational, moral and political problems facing them. Dr Benthall considers the different styles and "marketing techniques" of the different agencies, with particular attention paid to the power of television. There are also accounts of two modern calamities: the Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s and the Armenian earthquake of 1988.
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Trevor McDonald, Britain's much loved veteran Black newscaster, is speaking gravely of the need to save millions of people from dying in Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
media regime, red cross emblem, relations with the media, factual programmes, charity law, humanitarian agencies, secondary orality, relief aid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian Aid, Third World, World Vision, The Times, Comic Relief, United Nations, Band Aid, Bernard Kouchner, Hong Kong, Disasters Emergency Committee, Order of Malta, South Africa, Bob Geldof, New York, Second World War, Middle East, Soviet Union, United States, Charity Projects, Disaster Unit, International Conference, Simple Truth, Charity Commissioners, Ivory Coast, Leslie Kirkley New!
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Trevor McDonald, Britain's much loved veteran Black newscaster, is speaking gravely of the need to save millions of people from dying in Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
media regime, red cross emblem, relations with the media, factual programmes, charity law, humanitarian agencies, secondary orality, relief aid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian Aid, Third World, World Vision, The Times, Comic Relief, United Nations, Band Aid, Bernard Kouchner, Hong Kong, Disasters Emergency Committee, Order of Malta, South Africa, Bob Geldof, New York, Second World War, Middle East, Soviet Union, United States, Charity Projects, Disaster Unit, International Conference, Simple Truth, Charity Commissioners, Ivory Coast, Leslie Kirkley New!
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- The John Fiske Collection: Television Culture (Studies in Communication Series) by John Fiske in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Marshall McLuhan by Jonathan Miller on page 205, and Back Matter
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- Compassion Fatigue : How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death by Susan D. Moeller in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death by Susan D. Moeller in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention by Piers Robinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia During World War I (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies) by Peter Gatrell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Interpreting Islam (Politics and Culture series) by Hastings Donnan in Front Matter, and page 165
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