1. Moving people: Proper distance and global news coverage of migration in 2019.
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Robertson, Alexa and Schaetz, Nadja
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TELEVISION broadcasting of news ,HUMANITARIAN assistance ,BIRD migration - Abstract
Moving people comprise both a subject of news reports (of refugees, migrants and other people-on-the-move) and a way of reporting on the issues involved. Viewers can be moved and placed in a discursive relation to the displaced when news stories construct what Arendt called 'proper distance'. This possibility is explored in the article, which compares coverage of migration issues in 2019 on four global television news channels: Al Jazeera English, BBC World, CNN International and RT. The results provide evidence of approaches that differ in striking and thought-provoking ways, giving global television news consumers different resources for making sense of a complicated global crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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