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Community Structure And Media Risk Coverage, Sharon Dunwoody
Community Structure And Media Risk Coverage, Sharon Dunwoody
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Dunwoody regards media organizations to be community creatures; their accounts to be social constructions; and answers to, "Who's right?" to be relative.
Reporting Risk: The Case Of Silicone Breast Implants, Dorothy Nelkin
Reporting Risk: The Case Of Silicone Breast Implants, Dorothy Nelkin
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Nelkin finds journalists to be, if reluctantly, subject to influence and describes their uneasy relationship with scientists in filling a difficult role.