Download or read book Constructing the Heartland written by Katherine Fry and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses television news coverage of the 1993 Midwest flood as a case study to analyze the intersection of television news and nature, with specific focus on how contemporary television news accounts of natural disasters borrow from, alter and extend conceptions of nature as bound within certain geographic parameters.