Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters and Other Hazards - Hardcover

Singer, Eleanor; Endreny, Phyllis M.

 
9780871548016: Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters and Other Hazards

Synopsis

The authors survey a wide range of print and electronic media to provide a look at how hundreds of different hazards are presented to the public from toxic waste and food poisoning to cigarette smoking, from transportation accidents to famine, and from experimental surgery to communicable diseases. Their investigations raise disturbing questions about what the media tell us about modern risks, which hazards are covered and which ignored, and how the media determine when hazards should be considered risky. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Synopsis

The authors survey a wide range of print and electronic media to provide a look at how hundreds of different hazards are presented to the public from toxic waste and food poisoning to cigarette smoking, from transportation accidents to famine, and from experimental surgery to communicable diseases. Their investigations raise disturbing questions ab

About the Author

ELEANOR SINGER is senior research scholar at the Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, and social science analyst with the U.S. Bureau of the Census. PHYLLIS M. ENDRENY is social research consultant in Chicago, and was previously assistant professor of mass communications and mass media at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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