Vanishing Victims and Silencing Survivors: A Critical Analysis of Journalistic Colonialism Through Deference to Power in Cyclone Freddy Coverage
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Published online on July 08, 2026
Abstract
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Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lived tropical storm in recorded history, provides a critical case study for interrogating the dynamics of social inequality in journalism on climate crisis. We develop a distinction betweencolonial reportingandsolidarity ...
Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lived tropical storm in recorded history, provides a critical case study for interrogating the dynamics of social inequality in journalism on climate crisis. We develop a distinction betweencolonial reportingandsolidarity ...