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Item Individual and Organizational Response to the 1985 Earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico(Disaster Research Center, 1990) Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L.; Wenger, DennisThis volume summarizes a 24 month field project that was undertaken by the Disaster Research Center (DRC) and that ran from June 1986 through May 1988. As such, it highlights the general findings and major themes of our work. Therefore we do not present all the detailed findings from our study or all the special analyses that were done. All the results from that more specialized effort are provided in other publications.Item Local and National Media Coverage of Disaster: A Content Analysis of the Print Media's Treatment of Disaster Myths(Research Committee on Disasters, International Sociological Association, 1986-11) Wenger, Dennis; Friedman, BarbaraBased on newspaper coverage for four disasters-two within the U.S.A., one in Algeria, and one in Italy - Goltz (1984) concluded that generally the media do not present images of maladaptive behavior or disaster myths. This article reexamines Goltz's findings, presents additional relevant data from media coverage of Hurricane Alicia and dissects several important methodological issues. Our conclusion is a counterpoint observation that the mass communication system does contain mythical elements.