Communications, policy-making, and humanitarian crises / Fred H. Cate -- Reporting humanitarianism : are the new electronic media making a difference? / Edward R. Girardet -- Suffering in silence : media coverage of war and famine in the Sudan / Steven Livingston -- Big problems, small print : a guide to the complexity of humanitarian emergencies and the media / Peter Shiras -- Emergency response as morality play : the media, the relief agencies, and the need for capacity building / John Hammock and Joel R. Charny -- The media and the refugee / Lionel Rosenblatt -- Illusions of influence : the CNN effect in complex emergencies / Andrew Natsios -- Human rights and humanitarian crises : policy-making and the media / John Shattuck -- Coping with the new world disorder : the media, humanitarians, and policymakers / Robert Rotberg and Thomas G. Weiss.