Kill the messenger : the media's role in the fate of the world / Maria Armoudian ; foreword by Tom Hayden.

From the publisher. In the spring of 1994, after decades of intermarrying and living in relative harmony with each other, Rwandan Hutus, en masse, went on a murderous rampage against their Tutsi neighbors. By the end of just three months, nearly three-quarters of the entire Tutsi population had been...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armoudian, Maria
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.
Subjects:
Mass media > Political aspects.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects.
Journalism > Political aspects.
Journalism > Social aspects.
Journalistic ethics.
Physical Description:389 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / by Tom Hayden
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Media, genocide, war and peace
  • Media, democratization and human rights
  • Media and social transformation
  • Media's role in the fate of the world
  • Why media?
  • Kill the messenger.