Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, The Media, And Public Opinion (chicago Studies In American Politics)
by Brigitte L. Nacos /
2011 / English / PDF
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While we’ve long known that the strategies of terrorism rely
heavily on media coverage of attacks,
While we’ve long known that the strategies of terrorism rely
heavily on media coverage of attacks,Selling Fear
Selling Fear is
the first detailed look at the role played by media in
is
the first detailed look at the role played by media incounter
counterterrorism—and the ways that, in the wake of
9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to
maintain a climate of fear.
terrorism—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.
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
Selling Fear is a hard-hitting analysis of the
intertwined failures of government and media—and their costs
to our nation.
is a hard-hitting analysis of the
intertwined failures of government and media—and their costs
to our nation.
