Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty
- ISBN-10
- 1783712260
- ISBN-13
- 9781783712267
- Series
- Blaming the Victim
- Category
- Journalism
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Jairo Lugo-Ocando
Description
"Poverty is a recurrent theme in the news media, often linked to different underlying agendas. Issues such as famine, exclusion and conflict are regularly represented in the media as the consequence of poverty. However, there is no overarching consensus about what it is. Very different narratives and discourses shape the discussions of 'poverty' in the global news media. By so doing, journalists and news editors working for global media outlets often tend to obscure the structural causes of poverty and dismiss the very issue at the centre; that of inequality. This book deconstructs a spectrum of representations and misrepresentations of poverty in mainstream media outlets worldwide, investigating how and why poverty becomes newsworthy - and how the news media frames poverty, in ways that variously helps and hinders the public's understanding of poverty and its causes. The book looks at how journalistic ideologies, practices and news cultures define the way poverty is reported. It also examines issues such as the historical construction of discourses of poverty in the news and how news media represents visually poverty and inequality"--
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- 2014-12-20
- 240 pages
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- Pluto Press
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