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Not the Last Word: Point and Counterpoint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Extract

What you see depends on where you stand. It is all a question of our perspective, our world view. Attempting to understand other people's perspectives is said to be a mark of adulthood.

Journalists, on the other hand, are often asked to ensure that a narrow and local interest is catered for in stories. Thus we see stories of disasters where hundreds have been killed overseas, in a plane crash for example, and the cryptic sentence “No Australians were believed to be on board” appears in the text.

Type
Child Sexual Abuse
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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References

Cohen, R. (1988) “The Indian Bus Plunge Syndrome and the Brotherhood of Man”, The Guardian Weekly, 24th July, 1988, p. 20.Google Scholar
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Hechler, D. (1988) The Battle and the Backlash: The Child Sexual Abuse War, Lexington, Massachusetts and Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington Books.Google Scholar