Introduction : distant suffering on television -- 1. Mediation and public life -- 2. The paradoxes of mediation -- 3. Mediation, meaning and power -- 4. The analytics of mediation -- 5. Adventure news : suffering without pity -- 6. Emergency news : suffering without pity -- 7. Ecstatic news : suffering and identification -- 8. Mediation and action -- 9. The cosmopolitan public
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-230) and index
