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[ecrea] New Book: Blaming the Victim. How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (2015)

Sat Feb 07 12:36:51 GMT 2015



Blaming the Victim. How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (2015)
By Jairo Lugo-Ocando

Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. This book 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 in newsrooms - and how do the resulting narratives frame the issue? And why do so many journalists and news editors tend to obscure the structural causes of poverty? In analysing the processes of news production and presentation around the world, the books reveals that the news-makers' agendas are often as problematic as the geopolitics they seek to represent.

Publisher: Pluto Press

For more info: http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334417


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