The African killing fields; you heard all about the Ethiopian famine. Here's the story that President Reagan, relief groups, and the media didn't tell you.

From: The Washington Monthly | Date: September 1, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

You heard all about the Ethiopian famine. Here's the story that President Reagan, relief groups, and the media didn't tell you.

In 1984 and 1985, the American media saturated the public with stories about the famine in Ethiopia. Television footage of starving children made a deep imprint on the American audience, causing a flood of relief aid. However, while the amount of American coverage was impressive, the depth of treatment was not. The American media, in fact, dealt with only a thin slice of reality in Ethiopia, a country riven by ethnic conflict that was going ...

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