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Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty
Jairo Lugo-Ocando
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Description for Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty
Paperback. An analysis of how poverty is misrepresented in mainstream media, and a look at what really lies behind these narratives. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFA; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 278.
Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed from their accounts.
The books asks many biting questions. When - and how - does poverty become newsworthy? How does ideology come into play when determining the ways in which 'poverty' is constructed ... Read more
Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed from their accounts.
The books asks many biting questions. When - and how - does poverty become newsworthy? How does ideology come into play when determining the ways in which 'poverty' is constructed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745334417
SKU
V9780745334417
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About Jairo Lugo-Ocando
Jairo Lugo-Ocando is a lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (Pluto, 2014). His research addresses the relation between journalism, development, poverty and social exclusion.
Reviews for Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty
'Provides the clearest of reasons for setting aside the traditional rules of journalism'
Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% and All That Is Solid 'The book should be read by everyone interested in way the media deal with issues of economic inequality and injustice'
Democratic Communiqué
Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% and All That Is Solid 'The book should be read by everyone interested in way the media deal with issues of economic inequality and injustice'
Democratic Communiqué