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Synopsis
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.
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About the Author
Jairo Lugo-Ocando is a lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield (UK). His research addresses the relation between journalism, development, poverty and social exclusion. Before becoming an academic he worked as a journalist and news editor in South America.
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“Blaming the Victim is a cogent indictment of the news media’s coverage of poverty around the globe and of the ideological agendas that coverage serves....Well supported with data and details and powerfully argued. The book should be read by everyone interested in way the media deal with issues of economic inequality and injustice.” (Democratic Communique)
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- PublisherPluto Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0745334415
- ISBN 13 9780745334417
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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