In her impassioned new book, Compassion Fatigue, Moeller warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the media cover the world in the way that they do? Are they simply following the marketplace demand for tabloid-style international news? Or are they creating an audience that has seen too much--or too little--to care? Through a series of case studies of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"--disease, famine, death and war--Moeller investigates how newspapers, newsmagazines and television have covered international crises over the...

This text warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the media cover the world in the way that they do? Are they simply following the marketplace demand for tabloid-style international news? Or are they creating an audience that has seen too much - or too little - to care? Through a series of case studies of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - disease, famine, death and war - Moeller investigates how newspapers, newsmagazines and television have covered international crises since the late 1970s, identifying the ruts into which the media...

Packaging Terrorism investigates how American media have identified and covered international terrorism and violence since September 11, 2001.

• Compares US coverage with that of British and Arab media
• Discusses the priorities, assumptions, political debates, deadline pressures and bottom-line considerations that will continue to influence coverage in the future
• Suggests how terrorism could be better covered by the media going forwards

Packaging Terrorism investigates how American media have identified and covered international terrorism and violence since September 11, 2001.

• Compares US coverage with that of British and Arab media
• Discusses the priorities, assumptions, political debates, deadline pressures and bottom-line considerations that will continue to influence coverage in the future
• Suggests how terrorism could be better covered by the media going forwards

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.