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An uncomfortable lack of balance?: Writing for the media about child abuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Chris Goddard
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Abstract

Working with the media is not without risk. Using a piece submitted to the print media, and what happened to it, as a case study, this article suggests that we have to continue to use the media to set the public policy agenda whilst accepting that sometimes our work will be modified.

Type
Not the last word: point and counterpoint
Information
Children Australia , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 40 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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