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Not the Last Word: Point and Counterpoint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Chris Goddard
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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
Information
Children Australia , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , 1988 , pp. 18 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

References

Cohen, R. (1988) “The Indian Bus Plunge Syndrome and the Brotherhood of Man”, The Guardian Weekly, 24th July, 1988, p. 20.Google Scholar
Dingwall, R., Eekelaar, J., and Murray, T. (1983) The Protection of Children: Stale Intervention and Family Life, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.Google Scholar
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