Understanding Global News Melvin L. Butler Collected for the first time

Collected for the first time since publication

This story of people's power is meant for all who struggle for human rights

or control

"The content is crucial for classroom teachers who want to help children learn alternatives to aggression

there's advice on how to talk to children about death and suicide

Understanding Global News Melvin L. Butler Collected for the first timeA lively and critical introduction to the news media, this book has been written specifically for media students and trainee journalists. Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world. Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the classic questions: Who? What? When? and Why? onto the news