Abstract
That television is a pervasive force in American culture impacting areas from government policy-making to family life is, by now an understatement. Less certain is the continuing controversy over the interpretation of the First Amendment regarding the media's right to inform alongside television's obligation toward social responsibility-particularly in the underdeveloped research area of television's reporting of the bereaved. The purposes of this paper are three-fold: first, briefly to underscore television's potential influence on the viewer; second, to shed some light on the right-to-privacy issue; and finally, to show how knowledge and application of basic general semantics principles when interviewing the grief-stricken can heighten social sensitivity, reduce misinterpretation and minimize mis-evaluations.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
22
Issue
2
First Page
65
Last Page
78
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Herbert, Patrick J.
(1990)
"Television Reporting of the Bereaved: A General Semantics Approach,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 22:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol22/iss2/6
Copyright
©1990 Iowa Communication Association
