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Author Santos, Jody, 1966-

Title Daring to feel : violence, the news media, and their emotions / Jody Santos
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 91 pages)
Contents Stuck in neutral : violence and the news media's objective mandate -- Getting engaged : the history of emotional reporting -- From the heart : the benefits of being emotionally invested -- It's personal : gender, medium, and more -- Feeling the pain : the emotional risks of covering violence -- Road to recovery : finding new ways to talk about -- and heal from -- violence
Summary ""Thou shall remain objective" is the number-one newsroom commandment, but lately cracks have begun to appear in the news media's objective facade. American journalists have been pushed to the emotional brink with such recent tragedies and September 11th and Virginia Tech. Like social scientists, reporters are expected to be immune to, and even aloof from, the pain and suffering they chronicle. Daring to Feel: Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions challenges this journalistic mandate, particularly as it pertains to the emotional topic of violence." "Interviewing journalists who have covered some of the worst tragedies in our nation's history, Jody Santos shows what happens when the news media dare to feel. No longer detached observers, they are free to see violence in all of its emotional complexity. In allowing themselves to experience the rage, helplessness and fear of those who have survived violence, these reporters tell deeper, more moving stories - stories that hopefully will have a profound effect on the way society views and confronts devastating problems such as child abuse and school massacres. Daring to Feel is not a call to scrap objectivity but an attempt to rebalance journalism's hierarchical relationship between thinking and feeling; rather, Santos creates an insightful new dialogue about the value of emotionally engaged reporting."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Violence -- Press coverage.
Violence in mass media.
Journalism -- Objectivity.
Journalists -- Mental health
Journalism -- Psychological aspects
Social problems.
Mass media.
Crime.
Criminology.
Sociology.
Violence.
Journalism.
Social sciences.
Social Problems
Communications Media
Crime
Publishing
Information Science
Criminology
Sociology
Violence
Mass Media
Journalism
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
social issues.
mass media.
crimes (events)
criminology.
sociology.
violence.
journalism.
social sciences.
crime (social issue)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Violence
Sociology
Social sciences
Social problems
Mass media
Journalism
Criminology
Crime
Journalism -- Objectivity
Journalism -- Psychological aspects
Violence in mass media
Violence -- Press coverage
Violence -- Dans la presse.
Violence -- Dans les médias.
Médias -- Objectivité.
Journalisme -- Aspect psychologique.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021678535
ISBN 9780739144015
0739144014
1282820060
9781282820067
9786612820069
6612820063