Malaysian Airlines MH370: what we don’t know can make compelling journalism
Beckett, C.
(2014).
Malaysian Airlines MH370: what we don’t know can make compelling journalism.
In the absence of facts we get clichés. We (currently) have no accurate idea where the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 is, so journalists resort to phrases such as ‘mystery surrounds the fate’ or ‘confusion reigns’. More journalism is like this than you realise. It’s proof that news can be even more compelling when incomplete.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2014 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Media and Communications |
| Date Deposited | 15 May 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/77009 |