Giving Ground: Media and Environmental Conflict in Tasmania expertly weaves together two major concerns of our time: the shifting roles and responsibilities of news media, and the choices and decisions we make about our environment. Libby Lester, a journalist and media academic, forensically examines the Tasmanian case, as a world flashpoint where for decades clashes over the environment have been unrelenting, complex and hostile.
189 pages, illustrations, charts, graphs, map. ISBN 978-0-9775572-3-3
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CONTENTS
Preface
1. Introduction
Ten Moments
Media and Environmental Conflict in Tasmania
2. Media Debates and Theoretical Terrain
News Access
Journalists and Sources
Conflict and the Media
Symbols, Images, Protest
Public Access, Public Sphere
3. Wild Lands and New Movements
The Nature of Wilderness
An Emerging Movement
4. Wilderness, Protest and the News
A New Relationship
Towards Symbiosis
Reporting It Like You See It
5. Losing Access and Gaining Control
Creative Tactics and Set Pieces
Drama in the Forests
But Where’s the Blood?
6. Symbols and Strategies
Making Wilderness
Deploying Wilderness
Wilderness and the Loaded Language of News
7. Words and Images
Naming Wilderness
Big Trees, Big News
Inflaming our Minds
News and Other Irrelevancies
8. Public Relations and Symbolic Power
Selling Wilderness
Image Politics
Industry as Underdog
Marginalising the Media
9. Challenging Journalism
Direct Action/Direct Communication
Challenging Journalists
Afterword
A Final Moment
References
Books and Articles
News Stories and Media Items
Appendices
Interviewees
Key Wilderness Campaigns
Map of Tasmania
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