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Airmail prices available on request or at the journal’s web site. www.communication-ethics.net Contents Special issue: The ethics of the journalistic memoir: Radical departures Editorials Exploring the ethically challenging craft and construction of the Page 2 journalistic memoir – by Sue Joseph Ethical Space: The future – by Richard Lance Keeble Page 4 Papers Lara Pawson’s genre-bending memoir – gravitas and the celebration of unique cultural spaces – Page 5 by Richard Lance Keeble When journalism isn’t enough: ‘Horror surrealism’ in Behrouz Boochani’s testimonial prison Page 17 narrative – by Willa McDonald On being unfair: The ethics of the memoir-journalism hybrid – by Lisa A. Phillips Page 25 Stan Grant and cultural memory: Embodying a national race narrative through memoir – by Sue Page 34 Joseph Other papers Liberal mass media and the ‘Israel lobby’ theory – by T. J. Coles Page 45 Media trust and use among urban news consumers in Brazil – by Flávia Milhorance and Jane B. Page 56 Singer Balancing instrumental rationality and value rationality in communicating information: A study of Page 66 the ‘Nobel Older Brother’ case – by Lili Ning Dumbs gone to Iceland: (Re)presentations of English national identity during Euro 2016 and the Page 75 EU referendum – by Roger Domeneghetti ‘An eye in the eye of the hurricane’: Fire and fury, immersion and ethics in political literary Page 86 journalism – by Kerrie Davies Article The science communication challenge: Truth and disagreement in democratic knowledge societies Page 94 – by Gitte Meyer Book reviews Journalism after Snowden: The future of the free press in the surveillance state, edited by Emily Page 97 Bell and Taylor Owen, with Smitha Khorana and Jennifer R. Henrichsen (eds) – reviewed by Glenn Morrison; Trauma, shame, and secret making: Being a family without a narrative, by Francis Joseph Harrington – reviewed by Anna Denejkina; Advertising and promotional culture, by P. David Marshall and Joanne Morreale, reviewed by Jim Macnamara; Breaking news: The remaking of journalism and why it matters now, by Alan Rusbridger, reviewed by John Mair; Shooting the messenger: Criminalising journalism, by Andrew Fowler, reviewed by Richard Lance Keeble Editorial Board Joint Editors Cees Hamelink University of Amsterdam Richard Lance Keeble University of Lincoln Paul Jackson Manchester Business School Donald Matheson University of Canterbury, New Zealand Mike Jempson Director, MediaWise Trust Shannon Bowen University of South Carolina Cheris Kramarae University of Oregon; Centre for Sue Joseph University of Technology Sydney the Study of Women in Society Takeshi Maezawa Former Yomiuri ombudsman, Reviews Editor scholar/writer Sue Joseph University of Technology Sydney John Mair Book editor Ian Mayes Former Guardian Readers’ Editor Editorial board members Tessa Mayes Investigative Journalist Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen Catholic University Jolyon Mitchell University of Edinburgh Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Fuad Nahdi Publisher Q-news; Producer Channel 4 Raphael Alvira University of Navarra Sarah Niblock University of Westminster Dusan Babic Media plan, Sarajevo Kaarle Nordenstreng Tampere University Mona Baker Manchester University Manuel Parez i Maicas Universitat Autonoma Porfiro Barroso Computense University of Madrid & de Barcelona Pontifical University of Salamanca, Madrid Ian Richards University of South Australia, Adelaide Jay Black Editor, Journal of Mass Media Ethics Simon Rogerson De Montfort University Contact: Institute of Antonio Castillo University of Western Sydney Lorna Roth Concordia University, Montreal Communication Ethics, Ruth Chadwick Lancaster University Karen Sanders San Pablo University, Madrid C/O Dr Fiona Thompson, Saviour Chircop University of Malta John Steel Sheffield University 69 Glenview Road, Clifford Christians University of Illinois-Urbana, USA Miklos Sukosd Central European University, Budapest Shipley, West Yorkshire, Raphael Cohen–Almagor University of Hull Barbara Thomass Ruhruniversität Bochum BD18 4AR, UK Tom Cooper Emerson College, Boston, MA Terry Threadgold Centre for Journalism Studies, Published by: The Institute Deni Elliott University of Montana Cardiff University of Communication Ethics Chris Frost Liverpool John Moores University Stephen J. Ward University of British Columbia (www.communication-ethics.net) Theodore L. Glasser Stanford University Brian Winston University of Lincoln and Abramis Academic Anne Gregory Leeds Metropolitan University James Winter University of Windsor, Canada (www.abramis.co.uk) EDITORIAL BOARD & CONTENTS Copyright 2018-3/4. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. All rights reserved. Vol 15, No 3/4 2018 1 EDITORIALS to keep quiet’ (2011). But the marketplace tells another story – memoir grabs hold of us, Sue Joseph imparting insight about each other and, in so doing, about ourselves. For it is the resonant echo of a shared sensibility – a shared pain or grief or joy – that binds us to these narratives and to each other, creating community among the wronged, the disenfranchised, the abused, the survivors, the ill and the traumatised. Dismissed by some scholars in this neo-liberal age as too self-obsessed, such tales can still attract vast audiences around the