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» Foreign media share blame for Rwanda genocide: new book
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
 THE NEWS MEDIA PLAYED
A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE
1994 RWANDA GENOCIDE: LOCAL MEDIA FUELLED
THE KILLINGS, WHILE THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
EITHER IGNORED OR SERIOUSLY MISCONSTRUED
WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
This is the first book to explore both sides of that media equation.
The book documents how local radio and print media were used as
a tool of hate by encouraging neighbours to turn against each other.
It also presents a critique of international media coverage of the
cataclysmic events in Rwanda. Bringing together local reporters
and commentators from Rwanda, high-profile Western journalists
and leading media theorists, this is the only book to identify and probe
the extent of the media’s culpability. It also examines deliberations
by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the role of the
media in the genocide.
This book is a startling record of the dangerous influence that the media
can have, when used as a political tool or when news organisations and
journalists fail to live up to their responsibilities. The authors put forward
suggestions for the future by outlining how we can avoid censorship and
propaganda, and by arguing for a new ethic in media reporting.
ALLAN THOMPSON is Professor of Journalism at Carleton University in
Ottawa, Canada and a columnist with the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily
newspaper. After working as a reporter with the Toronto Star for 17 years,
Thompson took up a teaching post at Carleton in 2003 and now heads a
media capacity-building project in Rwanda called the Rwanda Initiative. » More...
  
 
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