Tears and Trauma in the news

The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 29-39

  Kitch, Carolyn ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84917180489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203878453     Document Type: Chapter

References (30)

1. Roger Rosenblatt, "The Measure of a Life," Time, August 2 1999, 56.
2. "In Memoriam [photo caption]," The New York Times, May 28 2007, A1.
3. See, for instance: David L. Altheide, Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (New York: Aline de Gruyter, 2002);
4. Doris Graber, Crime News and the Public (New York: Praeger, 1980);
5. and Dan Nimmo and James E. Combs, Nightly Horrors: Crisis Coverage by Television Network News (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985).
6. Andie Tucher, Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 75.
7. James Carey, Communication as Culture (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
8. Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time (New York: Pantheon, 1979);
9. John Hartley, Understanding News (London and New York: Routledge, 1982).
10. Gaye Tuchman, Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality (New York:Free Press, 1978), 123.
11. Dana L. Cloud, Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetorics of Therapy (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998).
12. Linda Kulman, "Lost Innocence," U.S. News & World Report, October 8 2001, 44.
13. Janice Hume, "'Portraits of Grief,' Reflectors of Values: The New York Times Remembers Victims of September 11," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 80, no. 1, Spring (2003): 166-82.
14. Kenneth Auchincloss, "Back on Our Feet," Newsweek: Commemorative Issue (Fall 2001): 14-15.
15. Elizabeth Bumiller, "Bush Meets Rescued Miners, Saying They Represent Spirit of America," The New York Times, August 6 2002, A10;
16. Emily Bazar, "Despite Tragedy, Miners' Way of Life Will Live On," USA Today, January 6-8 2006, 1A;
17. Gardiner Harris, "Endemic Problem of Safety in Coal Mining," The New York Times, January 10 2006, A13;
18. Ian Urbina, "Senators Have Strong Words for Mine Safety Officials," The New York Times, January 24 2006, A17.
19. Diane Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher, eds., The Amish and the Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 256.
20. Cindy Stauffer, "The Sound of Solidarity," Lancaster New Era, October 9 2006, A1;
21. Bill Hewitt, et al., "Heartbreak in a Small Town," People, October 16 2006, 62-63.
22. Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time (New York: Pantheon, 1979), p. 48;
23. Katherine Fry, Constructing the Heartland: Television News and Natural Disaster (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2003), 42, 37.
24. "America's Anguish," April 18, 2007, Rocky Mountain News, 1, available online at:www.newseum.org
25. "The Fallen: A Gallery of Lives Cut Short," Time, April 30 2007, 62-63.
26. Carolyn Marvin and David W. Ingle, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 2.
27. NBC Nightly News, NBC, January 4 2006.
28. Ashley M. Heher, "Pa. Man Accused of Killing his Girlfriend's Parents Captured," Associated Press, November 14 2005, n.p.
29. Monica Davey, "A Tiny Town, Suddenly Smaller by Seven, Mourns and Wonders, Why?" The New York Times, October 9 2007, A16.
30. Maryclaire Dale, "Teen Accused in School Plot was Target of Bullies," Associated Press report in The Patriot-News (Harrisburg PA), October 13 2007, A5.