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Disease, War, And Famine In The Sudan And Haiti: A Crisis Noticed And A Crisis Ignored, Melissa Whalen Apr 2013

Disease, War, And Famine In The Sudan And Haiti: A Crisis Noticed And A Crisis Ignored, Melissa Whalen

Masters Theses

The media acts as a gatekeeper and decides what material to cover and what not to cover. In order to better understand why one disaster receives media coverage and another crisis is virtually unnoticed by the media, the motives behind covering one story over another is analyzed in this study. Three major American newspaper articles concerning the Haitian earthquake and the crisis in Darfur are examined in order to discover the media's motives for covering Haiti over Darfur.


Letter From Philander C. Knox To Cyrus H. K. Curtis, March 14, 1917, Philander C. Knox Mar 1917

Letter From Philander C. Knox To Cyrus H. K. Curtis, March 14, 1917, Philander C. Knox

World War I Era Documents, 1914-1918

A typed letter from Philander C. Knox to Cyrus H. K. Curtis written March 14, 1917. Within, Knox writes to recommend Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson to be Curtis' foreign affairs writer for the Public Ledger newspaper in Philadelphia.


Letter From John Spurgeon To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, February 24, 1916, John J. Spurgeon Feb 1916

Letter From John Spurgeon To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, February 24, 1916, John J. Spurgeon

World War I Era Documents, 1914-1918

A typed letter from John Spurgeon to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson written February 24, 1916. Within, Spurgeon welcomes Wilson to come and share information and judgment that might aid in the Public Ledger newspaper publishing more "responsibly".