Covering Violence
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.99 (784 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0231114516 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-06-04 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He has been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the Detroit Free Press and directed the first Western Conference on Journalism and Trauma. He is the coauthor of Unionism or Hearst: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Strike of 1936 and An Evening at The Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret in Seattle.. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and has conducted several seminars on victims and the media as well as traumatic stress.Rog
" Covering Violence is an asset." -- Journal of Mass Media Ethics
Covering Violence John L. Padgett For those studying contagion theory and relationships, the reporting of violence, and the symbiotic relationships between the media and violence, this is a must have addition to you library.. Long on ideas Why did it take me eight months to finish a book that is such an easy read? Any journalism student could breeze through Covering Violence in a day or so. Yet on many days I found myself reading a page -- or less -- and then setting the book aside. I thought that I was remiss until by chance I talked to two other people who were also reading this book at the same time -- and discovered that they were also plodding through it at a snail's pace. Why? On reflectio
-- Columbia Journalism Review