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