The rhetoric of reportage: The media construction of a pandemic

In disease outbreak situations, the media are considered (and relied upon) by authorities to “translate” information across disciplinary boundaries. A reporter covering the 2003 SARS outbreak observed that journalists “are often conscious of their role as participants in a human crisis” (World Healt...

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Other Authors: Moffatt, John
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-09-1237