GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA’s RESPONSE TO DISASTER
Oct 29, 2014
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!
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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.