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Media Coverage of Heat Wave Crisis by Grace is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses how news organizations covered the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Initially, news outlets did not take the heat wave seriously and saw it as just hot weather. However, once deaths started rising dramatically, news coverage shifted to portraying it as a sensational disaster. Journalists focused on images like piles of bodies but paid less attention to social factors. Officials also questioned the death toll, which news outlets amplified through their own debates rather than just reporting fac
- Author
- Grace
- Language
- EN