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Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit
By: Susan MoellereBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
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Packaging Terrorism investigates how American media have identified and covered international terrorism and violence since September 11, 2001.
Compares US coverage with that of British and Arab media
Discusses the priorities, assumptions, political debates, deadline pressures and bottom-line
considerations that will continue to influence coverage in the future
Suggests how terrorism could be better covered by the media going forwards
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| Title of eBook: Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit | |
| Release Date: 02-11-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit
Chapter One
what is terrorism?
the american experience: the agenda of the "war on terror"
President George W. Bush's "War on Terror" publicly began on September 11, 2001.
We think of wars beginning with a cataclysmic event-everything up to that moment could have gone either way until "the moment" occurs that makes a war inevitable. It is that clap of thunder, we believe, that coalesces events into something that we recognize as "war."
The designation that a series of events has become a "war" wonderfully concentrates public and official support behind a situation that had not previously generated unanimity. Henry Cabot Lodge and Congressional Republicans needed the sinking of the Maine, Woodrow Wilson needed the Lusitania, FDR needed Pearl Harbor.
Bush needed 9/11. The astonishing loss of life that single September morning validated his declaration of war against the Al Qaeda terrorists. But his "War on Terror" encompassed more than the fight against Osama bin Laden and his minions and in many ways it began well before 9/11. Bush declared war against disparate enemies; in his estimation the "War on Terror" was not only properly fought in Afghanistan once the Taliban refused to give up Al Qaeda leaders, but included battles of all kinds-most notably against Saddam Hussein.
In quick order, with everyone watching (but few willing to criticize), the September 11-initiated war became a war to create the new moral order articulated by President Bush and his Vulcans, as author James Mann compellingly defined the administration
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