‘Catastrophic Failure’ Theories and Disaster Journalism: Evaluating Media Explanations of the Black Saturday Bushfires

Benjamin Carl Eltham; Alexander George Burns

doi:10.1177/1329878X1013700111

‘Catastrophic Failure’ Theories and Disaster Journalism: Evaluating Media Explanations of the Black Saturday Bushfires

Benjamin Carl Eltham
, Alexander George Burns

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	90-99
Journal	Media International Australia
Volume	137
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X1013700111
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Black Saturday
bushfires
Disaster response
journalism studies
Victoria
disaster sociology

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