Government and media response to disaster gwestmoreland

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GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA’s RESPONSE TO DISASTER

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GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA’sRESPONSE

TO DISASTER

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DO YOU DO THIS?

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

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OF

COURSE

YOU

DO!

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IF SOMETHING

LIKE THIS HAPPENED

IN YOURTOWN

HOW WOULD

YOUR NEWS STATION

REACT ?? ?

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Calmly??

OR

Cause a

PANIC!

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IF the MEDIA and GOVERNMENT caused PANIC…

Would YOUR

Communitybe

OR

NOTE: This effects YOU and the PUBLIC

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MOST OF THE TIMEGOVERNMENT AND

MEDIA

TAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

AND STRECH IT TO MAKE IT THIS:

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

AROUND YOU

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FOREXAMPLE!

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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.

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LETS DO ONE MORE

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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.

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THIS NEGATIVE

EFFECT HAPPENS

WITH MOST

CASES!

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LITTLEYOUNGCHILD

BIGOLD

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

EFFECTS US ALL!

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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.