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Media’s Attention Span Mirrors Western Priorities
Christine Mahoney
Director, Social Entrepreneurship Department of the University of Virginia
Christine Mahoney Director, Social Entrepreneurship Department of the University of Virginia
In this second installment of her series on refugee advocacy, University of Virginia professor Christine Mahoney argues that the Western media’s famously short-term interest in displacement crises is driven primarily by geopolitics.