Television News
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Space and Culture
- Vol. 9 (1), 83-85
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331205283873
Abstract
Early network television coverage of Hurricane Katrina was a narrative of good versus evil. TV news placed itself in the role of hero fighting the evil that was government ineptitude. This narrative style of reporting is especially fitting to the medium of television, which shapes all stories to fit its parameters, and is common in natural disaster stories, which are, ultimately, stories not about nature but about people.Keywords
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