{"id":720,"date":"2013-08-29T01:24:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/?p=720"},"modified":"2016-11-11T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:22:50","slug":"news-coverage-on-disasters-research-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/2013\/08\/29\/news-coverage-on-disasters-research-findings\/","title":{"rendered":"News coverage on disasters &#8211; research findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;News biases relief in favor of certain disaster types and regions: for every person killed in a volcano disaster, 40,000 people must die in a drought to reach the same probability of media coverage. Similarly, it requires 40 times as many killed in an African disaster to achieve the same expected media coverage as for a disaster in Eastern Europe of similar type and magnitude.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This, and other findings on media coverage of natural disasters are presented in the article <a href=\"http:\/\/people.su.se\/~dstro\/wpdisasters.pdf\">&#8220;NEWS DROUGHTS, NEWS FLOODS, AND U.S. DISASTER RELIEF&#8221;<\/a> by Thomas Eisensee and David Str\u00f6mberg.<\/p>\n<p>The article has also recieved some attention on the world politics blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteoliphaunt.com\/duckofminerva\/2012\/08\/the-olympics-make-you-care-less-about.html\">The Duck of Minerva<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;News biases relief in favor of certain disaster types and regions: for every person killed in a volcano disaster, 40,000 people must die in a drought to reach the same probability of media coverage. Similarly, it requires 40 times as many killed in an African disaster to achieve the same expected media coverage as for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societalsecurity.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}