GOVERNMENT

AND MEDIA’s

RESPONSE

TO DISASTER

DO YOU DO THIS?

OR… LISTEN TO THE RADIO, GET ON FACEBOOK, SEARCH THE INTERNET, ETC???

OF

COURSE

YOU

DO!

IF SOMETHING

LIKE THIS HAPPENED

IN YOURTOWN

HOW WOULD

YOUR NEWS STATION

REACT ?? ?

Calmly

??

ORCause

a PANIC!

IF the MEDIA and GOVERNMENT caused PANIC…

Would YOUR

Communitybe OR

NOTE: This effects YOU and the PUBLIC

MOST OF THE TIMEGOVERNMENT AND

MEDIA

TAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

AND STRECH IT TO MAKE IT THIS:

THINK ABOUT HOW WHAT SAYS EFFECTS HOW YOU REACT… AND EVERYONE ELSE

AROUND YOU

FOREXAMPLE!

In the article “People killing people on the news”: Young

children's descriptions of frightening television news

content.

A survey was taken on 6th graders and the effect watching the news had on their everyday

life. A qualitative analysis suggests that these children

had vivid memories of the disturbing news content each

one of them witnessed.

The article: “Delivering the scary news: Newspaper sourcing in a bioterrorism crisis.”

focuses on:

The risk of communication factors in news sourcing, again portraying the negatives of the

media’s reaction disaster.

This article gives a specific example referencing back to the 2001 Anthrax terrorist attack.

These stories possessed a sense of exaggerating, thus causing a more negative

reaction by the public.

THIS NEGATIVE

EFFECT HAPPENS

WITH MOST

CASES!

LITTLEYOUNGCHILD

BIGOLD

ADULTTHE NEGATIVITY AND EXAGGERATION COMING FROM GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA’S REACTION TO DISASTER

EFFECTS US ALL!

PHOTO CREDIT FROM FLICKER• http://www.flickr.com/photos/plmccordj/5756470902/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfv/2854512346/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/grantneufeld/9253715/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/zandwacht/5158808851/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/optikalblitz/2899219879/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/daecks/210711666/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/aksphotography/367363319/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/34586698@N00/162922911/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/tizz66/3843682647/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalsadhu/4955745820/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawno/3807040156/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaar/4268928408/

Example on slide 6 fron: • Riddle, K., Cantor, J., Byrne, S., & Moyer-Gusé, E. (2012). “People killing people on the news”: Young children's descriptions of

frightening television news content. Communication Quarterly, 60(2), 278-294. doi:10.1080/01463373.2012.669340 • Example on slide 123 from:• Swain, K. (2012). Delivering the scary news: Newspaper sourcing in a bioterrorism crisis. Online Journal Of Communication & Media

Technologies, 2(2), 29-56.