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Journalism in a Culture of Grief

Kitch, Carolyn and Janice Hume. Journalism in a Culture of Grief. New York: Routledge, 2008. 247 pp. $26.95.

Each semester, I begin my Media History class by discussing September 11, asking my students what they temember from that day. While their individual stories start out differently, eventually they begin to sound alike as students talk about the media coverage of the attack. I use this exercise to demonstrate the important role that journalists play as "eyewitnesses" to history, how news consumption allows audiences to collectively experience an event, and how news coverage shapes our collective memory of historical events.

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