360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists in the month following the disaster; New York’s Kennedy Airport, where families learned in the presence of the media that their loved ones had perished; Syracuse University, plunged into mourning the... Read more

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. December 21, 1988 2. Survivors 3. Newsgatherers 4. Institutional Response 5. The Changing Role of Survivors: From Victim to Advocate 6. The Media Awareness Group: Lockerbie’s Response 7. After the Trauma Reflections Text notes References Index

Biography

Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes, and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke