Bad Tidings

First Published in 1993. In the 1970s a book collecting research about the mass media and their role in disasters would have been unimaginable. This book then is an attempt to compile a somewhat eclectic view of research on mass communication and catastrophe. The editors have attempted to provide a sampling of the most recent empirical work on the mass media and disasters including everything from content analysis of media reports to studies of audience response to those events.