| Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty Contributor(s): Lugo-Ocando, Jairo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745334415 ISBN-13: 9780745334417 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Media Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism |
| Dewey: 302.22 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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, Lugo-Ocando reveals that the news-makers' agendas are often as problematic as the geopolitics they seek to represent. This groundbreaking study reframes the ways in which we can think and write about the enduring global injustice of poverty. |