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Television News

In: Disasters and the Media

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  • Clive Ferguson

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If you are the person responsible for dealing with the media, perhaps the most important thing you will have to come to terms with very quickly when you are dealing with a major, or even in some cases, a minor emergency is the numbers. You will be inundated with phone calls. I think it’s fair to say that until you’ve been at the centre or even on the fringes of a King’s Cross, a Piper Alpha, or something as tragically sad as Dunblane, you simply just can’t imagine what it’s going to be like. You may have had rehearsals and run exercises, you may have read the Home Office guidelines. Believe me, they do not exaggerate about the numbers of people you will have to deal with.

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  • Clive Ferguson, 1999. "Television News," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Shirley Harrison (ed.), Disasters and the Media, chapter 3, pages 36-45, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14640-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14640-6_3
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