Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion

Brigitte L Nacos

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Langue : anglais

Edité par The University of Chicago Press, 2011

0226567192 / 9780226567198

Série : Livre 10 sur 65 - Chicago Studies in American Politics

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While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, "Selling Fear" is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism - and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear. Drawing on in-depth analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11 - including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq - the authors present a compelling case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness. The media, meanwhile, largely abdicated its watchdog role, choosing to amplify the administration's message while downplaying issues that might have called the administration's statements and strategies into question. The book extends through Hurricane Katrina, and the more skeptical coverage that followed, then the first year of the Obama administration, when an increasingly partisan political environment presented the media, and the public, with new problems of reporting and interpretation. "Selling Fear" is a hard-hitting analysis of the intertwined failures of government and media - and their costs to our nation.…

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Titre
Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion
Auteur
Brigitte L Nacos
Éditeur
The University of Chicago Press
Année de publication
2011
État de l'article
Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0226567192
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780226567198
Série
Livre 10 sur 65: Chicago Studies in American Politics

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