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_bKIT/J
100 _a Kitch, Carolyn
245 0 _aJournalism in a culture of grief/
_cCarolyn Kitch
260 _aNew York:
_bRoutledge,
_cc2008.
300 _axxiv, 247 p.
505 _antroduction: Disaster, Trauma, and Respect for the Dead 1. At War with Nature: Coverage of Natural Disaster Fatalities 2. Death Rites Interrupted: Responsibility and Remembrance in Coverage of the Tri-State Crematory Scandal and Hurricane Katrina 3. Who Speaks for the Dead?: Authority and Authenticity in News Coverage of the Amish School Shootings - Lessons Learned from Life Stories 4. Life and Death in a Small Town: Cultural Values and Memory in Community Newspaper Obituaries 5. 'It Takes a Sinner to Appreciate the Blinding Glare of Grace': Redeeming the 'Dark' Celebrity 6. 'We Can't Keep Losing our Kids': Fear, Blame and Mourning in Press Coverage of Teen Deaths 7. Mourning 'Men Joined in Peril and Purpose': Working-Class Heroism in News Repair of the Sago Miners' Story - The Journalism of Ritual and Tribute 8. 'Portraits of Grief' and Stories that Heal: The Public Funeral for Victims of September 11 9. Reporting on 'a Grieving Army of Americans': Citizen Testimony in the Misremembering of Ronald Reagan 10. 'All the Fellows that Went on Before Me': Tribute, Memory and Counter-Memory among Veterans of 'the Good War'Conclusion
650 _aMass media and culture-Death in mass media
650 _aJournalism--Social aspects
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