Compassion fatigue

Authors
Moeller, S
Citation
S. Moeller, Compassion fatigue, MEDIA ST J, 15(1), 2001, pp. 108
Categorie Soggetti
Communication
Journal title
MEDIA STUDIES JOURNAL
ISSN journal
10577416 → ACNP
Volume
15
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
1057-7416(200122)15:1<108:CF>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Compassion fatigue can set in when we believe the media are just crassly pl aying on our sympathies. Rarely does pity, for example, provoke a response long-lived enough to jump-start Americans into caring about a country or re gion beyond an immediate disaster. One feels pity for only so long before f eeling tempted to consider the person or situation merely pitiful.