i did not finish this book but i am grateful for the opportunity netgalley has provided me! thank you!

I have always been fascinated by death and how it is covered in the media, which is weird to admit at times. My undergraduate degree is in speech and media communications, and I was forever changed by my studies during that time. One assigned reading that stands out was Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others, which wpis a commentary on how the horror of war is shared for public consumption. It was a book that changed my life. That said, I was looking for something similar in Death Makes the News. While I very much appreciated many of the points made by the author, it did feel a bit too textbook-ish at times. Yes, this was also a study in media coverage of death, however I felt there could have been more interesting commentary that could have been provided. Despite this, though, I thought it was an interesting read that could lend itself to many a media communications classroom at the college level.

After reading this book you will never look at the news the same. The author takes a detailed look at how the media portrays death in the news. I found it fascinating that often our perception of what is shown on the news is not supported by real numbers. Anyone with an interest in photojournalism and censorship will enjoy this book.

A great expose on what happens behind the scenes in the newsroom when death is involved. Media today is saturated with images of death. No longer in just movies and video games, the news thrives on death. But where is that line drawn and how far will it be pushed?

If you ever watch the news, you should read this book. It explores the idea of death in the media. With explanations why some photos are shown and others are not, a reader will notice the photos or lack there of on their source of news.

Very good take on the media and how they present death and other topics. This book focuses on many subjects that you may or may not have thought about when watching the news be it via tv or internet. The various images that are used, again the very way it is presented to us the public. There were many things mentioned in this book that I admit I never really looked at closely, but once this book touched on it, I saw it quite a bit. It also touches on how various news agencies report crime. I never really compared the two, You will after reading this book. This book was a very good study on the media. I found it engrossing and very easy to follow. I would recommend this book to others. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

Death Makes the News How the Media Censor and Display the Dead by Jessica M. Fishman is a very interesting book in particular if you are in the media, because it explains the profound meaning of death and how death and dead people are daily treated in the news.

Death is everywhere today. Cinema, video games, TV.

We mustn't forget the reality. Terrorist attacks, yesterday an episode in London disconnected by ISIS and terrorist attacks in grade to case a lot of mess, with some people injured. Devastation, quakes, floods.
We are bombarded by death and so by a lot of sadness don't you think so?

But...There is a segment of this society, the one of mass media uninterested to let us see, talking of photojournalism, death or dead people.

Let's say in general that American newsmagazines won't never tend to publish any corpse of an American citizen dead, (and the life of an American citizen is more important than the one of any other person in the globe) but sometimes media can indulge in pictures of foreigners dead somewhere for some specific reasons and the news relevant in the American territory as well.

Mostly, corpses, and postmortem pictures are more seen in tabloids newsmagazines than not in newsmagazines like the NYT, the Washington Post or the Boston Globe (treated in the book the Boston Marathon Bombing) where the corpse and what happened to it in the while, - reasons of death etc - is left to the imagination of the reader.

Not all the time: true. Once it was published, interesting story, the execution of a lady at the beginning of 1900 through the electric chair on the first page of a newsmagazine.

We will see that the same treatment is reserved for public people. When Lady Diana died 20 years ago there were pictures of the Princess in the car after the car incident thanks to the presence of a lot of paparazzi around but newsmagazines refused to launch that final imagines of the princess, preferring to present, and to continue to give to the readers an imagine of a healthy, positive lady, passed away too soon.

Many example from the world, from the US territory, the book offers a complete coverage of the meaning of death and dead people and events covered by the media during these past recent years.


Being a reporter I can tell you I go proud of our field where decency is respected in most cases, people and children not too scared by a vision too hard in a newsmagazine and where a condition of normality is, anyway always searched for not falling into a morbidity never wanted by respectable, big mass media.

The book will be released on Nov 21.

I thank NetGalley and NYUPress for this ebook.