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Journalism in a culture of grief
- Title
- Journalism in a culture of grief / Carolyn Kitch and Janice Hume.
- Author
- Kitch, Carolyn L.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, [2008], ©2008.
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- Publisher description
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- Additional Authors
- Hume, Janice.
- Description
- xxiv, 247 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-236) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Disaster, trauma, and respect for the dead -- Ch. 1. At war with nature : coverage of natural disaster fatalities -- Ch. 2. Death rites interrupted : responsibility and remembrance in coverage of the tri-state crematory scandal and hurricane Katrina -- Ch. 3. Who speaks for the dead? : authority and authenticity in news coverage of the Amish school shootings -- Pt. II. Lessons learned from life stories -- Ch. 4. Life and death in a small town : cultural values and memory in community newspaper obituaries -- Ch. 5. "It takes a sinner to appreciate the blinding glare of grace" : redeeming the "dark" celebrity -- Ch. 6. "We can't keep losing our kids" : fear, blame, and mourning in press coverage of teen deaths -- Ch. 7. Mourning "men joined in peril and purpose" : working-class heroism in news reports of the Sago miners' story -- Pt. III. The journalism of ritual and tribute -- Ch. 8. "Portraits of grief" and stories that heal : the public funeral for victims of September 11 -- Ch. 9. Reporting on "a grieving army of Americans" : citizen testimony in the misremembering of Ronald Reagan -- Ch. 10. "All the fellows that went on before me" : tribute, memory, and counter-memory among veterans of "the good war"
- ISBN
- 0415980097 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415980098 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415980100 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780415980104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007004041
- OCLC
- OCM82471567
- 82471567
- SCSB-5364335
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries