Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Other Hazards

by Eleanor Singer and Phyliss M. Endreny

After acts of airline terrorism, air travel tends to drop dramatically--yet Americans routinely pursue the far riskier business of driving cards, where accidents resulting in death or injury are much more likely to occur. Reporting on Risk argues that this selective concern with danger is powerfully shaped by the media, whose coverage of potentially hazardous events is governed more by a need to excite the public than to inform it. Singer and Endreny...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871548011
• ISBN13: 9780871548016
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"