"It was too expensive," she said.
She also said that media coverage of crises, while important, does not always spur the public to action.
"Images don't tell viewers what to do," Power said. "The image is so, so horrible, but politicians can use it both ways," she said, to either galvanize the public to respond to the crisis or to convince them that America had better stay out.
Power said that media must be careful to be objective, while not necessarily treating both sides even-handedly when genocide is being committed.
"There's a reason that we want even-handed accounts--so we feel a lot better about doing nothing," Power said.
Power said that in her book she plans to detail the efforts of several Americans who were dedicated to preventing genocide.
The first and most extensive story she told was that of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who mounted a campaign before World War II to outlaw genocide--a term he invented.
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