Journal article
Media ritual in catastrophic time: The populist turn in television coverage of Hurricane Katrina
Journalism (London, England), Vol.9(1), pp.95-116
02/2008
DOI: 10.1177/1464884907084342
Abstract
Television news coverage of Hurricane Katrina's impact on Mississippi and New Orleans presented viewers with broadcast journalists who were on the scene but were largely left without access to traditional government sources. Through a textual analysis of transcripts of cable and network news reports, this study compares the media's performance during the six days following 29 August, 2005 to news coverage following 11 September, 2001. In this way, it interprets how and why the 11 September attacks produced a `sphere of consensus' unifying the media and the state, while Katrina produced the opposite dynamic. Central to this analysis is the normative concept of `media ritual', especially where the media's ritual consensus with government was `de-centered' by the federal government's de facto absence from the storm scene for that crucial week.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Media ritual in catastrophic time: The populist turn in television coverage of Hurricane Katrina
- Creators
- Frank Durham - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journalism (London, England), Vol.9(1), pp.95-116
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- DOI
- 10.1177/1464884907084342
- ISSN
- 1464-8849
- eISSN
- 1741-3001
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2008
- Academic Unit
- Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984307556602771
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