{"product_id":"9780814724361","title":"Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media\u003c\/strong\u003e Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do not tell the whole story. Pictures are also at the epicenter of journalism, and when photographers and editors illustrate fatalities, it often raises questions about how they distinguish between a “fit” and “unfit” image of death. \u003cem\u003eDeath Makes the News\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of this controversial news practice: picturing the dead. Jessica Fishman uncovers the surprising editorial and political forces that structure how the news and media cover death. The patterns are striking, overturning long-held assumptions about which deaths are newsworthy and raising fundamental questions about the role that news images play in our society. In a look behind the curtain of newsrooms, Fishman observes editors and photojournalists from different types of organizations as they deliberate over which images of death make the cut, and why. She also investigates over 30 years of photojournalism in the tabloid and patrician press to establish when the dead are shown and whose dead body is most newsworthy, illustrating her findings with high-profile news events, including recent plane crashes, earthquakes, hurricanes, homicides, political unrest, and war-time attacks.  \u003cem\u003eDeath Makes the News\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that much of what we think we know about the news is wrong: while the patrician press claims that they do not show dead bodies, they are actually more likely than the tabloid press to show them—even though the tabloids actually claim to have no qualms showing these bodies. Dead foreigners are more likely to be shown than American bodies. At the same time, there are other unexpected but vivid patterns that offer insight into persistent editorial forces that routinely structure news coverage of death.  An original view on the depiction of dead bodies in the media, \u003cem\u003eDeath Makes the News\u003c\/em\u003e opens up new ways of thinking about how death is portrayed. ","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118575141104,"sku":"9780814724361","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814724361_p0.jpg?v=1769910141","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814724361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}