Thursday, 17th March 2011
Coping with disaster coverage
By Simon Leo Brown Fires, floods, cyclones, earthquakes... natural disaster seems to dominate our daily news like never before.http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/03/17/3166744.htm Massive, mesmerising, unfathomable events are presented live on our living room widescreens. Some people are using social media services to accuse news organisations of peddling in 'disaster porn', while others use the same medium to compulsively share each new snippet of...
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