Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21505
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Pages 1-18 in Mike Moore (ed.), Health risks and the press: perspectives on media coverage of risk assessment and health. The Media Institute, Washington, D.C. in cooperation with the American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois. 111 pages.
Perspectives on the role of an ethical public communicator in "this toxic political situation called the environmental debate." Author concludes that in this information environment "the real ethical issue lies with us - the informed citizenry. An ethical citizenry would be rhetorically savvy in order to make sound choices about their local economies and their global environment."
This article explores the role of traditional objectivity in newspaper coverage of the nomination in Alaska of a socialist commissioner of environmental conservation and the subsequent "framing" of public discussion.
