DEATH MAKES THE NEWS: HOW THE MEDIA CENSOR AND DISPLAY THE DEAD
Book ID/图书代码： 14932718C00004
English Summary/英文概要： Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do not tell the whole story. Pictures are also at the epicenter of journalism, and when photographers and editors illustrate fatalities, it often raises questions about how they distinguish between a “fit” and “unfit” image of death.
Death Makes the News is the story of this controversial news practice: picturing the dead. Jessica Fishman uncovers the surprising editorial and political forces that structure how the news and media cover death. The patterns are striking, overturning long-held assumptions about which deaths are newsworthy and raising fundamental questions about the role that news images play in our society.
In a look behind the curtain of newsrooms, Fishman observes editors and photojournalists from different types of organizations as they deliberate over which images of death make the cut, and why. She also investigates over 30 years of photojournalism in the tabloid and patrician press to establish when the dead are shown and whose dead body is most newsworthy, illustrating her findings with high-profile news events, including recent plane crashes, earthquakes, hurricanes, homicides, political unrest, and war-time attacks.
Death Makes the News reveals that much of what we think we know about the news is wrong: while the patrician press claims that they do not show dead bodies, they are actually more likely than the tabloid press to show them―even though the tabloids actually claim to have no qualms showing these bodies. Dead foreigners are more likely to be shown than American bodies. At the same time, there are other unexpected but vivid patterns that offer insight into persistent editorial forces that routinely structure news coverage of death.
An original view on the depiction of dead bodies in the media, Death Makes the News opens up new ways of thinking about how death is portrayed.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 死亡被认为是最具新闻价值的事件之一，但言语并不能说明整个故事。图片也是新闻的中心，当摄影师和编辑们展示死亡的时候，人们常常会问他们如何区分“健康”和“不适合”的死亡图像。
死亡使新闻成为这个有争议的新闻报道的故事:描绘死者。杰西卡•费什曼揭露了令人惊讶的编辑和政治力量，即新闻和媒体如何报道死亡。这些模式令人震惊，颠覆了人们长久以来关于哪些死亡是新闻价值的假设，并引发了关于新闻在我们社会中扮演何种角色的根本性问题。
在新闻编辑室的幕后，费什曼观察了不同类型的组织的编辑和摄影记者，因为他们在考虑死亡的图像，以及为什么。她还调查了30多年的小报和贵族媒体的摄影新闻，以确定死者的尸体是什么，谁的尸体最具新闻价值，她的调查结果与一些备受关注的新闻事件有关，包括最近的飞机失事、地震、飓风、谋杀、政治动荡和战争时期的袭击。
死亡的消息显示,我们认为我们知道的消息是错误的:虽然贵族记者声称他们不显示他的尸体,他们实际上是比小报更有可能显示他们——尽管实际上小报声称没有显示这些机构的疑虑。死去的外国人比美国人更有可能被展示出来。与此同时，还有其他一些意想不到但却生动的模式，让我们能够深入了解持久的编辑力量，这些力量通常会构成死亡的新闻报道。
在媒体中关于尸体的描述的最初观点，死亡使得新闻为人们提供了新的思考死亡的方式。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：一篇精彩的、精心编写的关于一种迷人现象的研究:我们爱恨交加的关系，描绘了死尸的形象。杰西卡•费什曼的一丝不苟的研究表明，美国媒体是多么严格地反对美国人的尸体，即使他们选择了外国人的尸体。费什曼不害怕在照片编辑中流行的奇怪的异常和悖论，并明智地激发我们对图片和文字的真实想法。——托德•吉特林，媒体无限的作者:图像和声音的洪流如何压倒了我们的生活
“恒星般的发现。这本书肯定会在未来的几年里很重要。”——霍华德•S•贝克尔，局外人的作者: 偏差社会学的研究
"A superb, well-written study of a fascinating phenomenon: our love-hate relationship with graphic depictions of dead bodies. Jessica Fishman’s meticulous research shows just how rigidly American media exercise a taboo against depicting American bodies even as they choose otherwise with the bodies of foreigners. Fishman is unafraid of the weird anomalies and paradoxes that prevail among photo editors, and wisely inspires reflection on what we really believe about pictures and words." -Todd Gitlin, Author of Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
"Stellar findings. This book is sure to be important for years to come." -Howard S. Becker, Author of Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
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