Mass Media And Disasters
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Disaster Research Center
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Disaster researchers and emergency management officials often disagree about many facets of the disaster experience. Like the earthworm and the giraffe, it is often difficult for them to see eye-to-eye. Researchers sometime become upset with tradition-bound practitioners who seem incapable of not making the same mistake over and over again. Meanwhile, emergency management officials often become either bemused or furious with theoretical, pipe-smoking, naïve, eggheads who would not know a real-life, honest to goodness, disaster problem if it came into their Ivory Towers and bit them in the ankle.