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Tales of Terror - Television News and the Construction of the Terrorist Threat (Hardcover, New)
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Tales of Terror - Television News and the Construction of the Terrorist Threat (Hardcover, New)
Series: Media and Society Series
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Conventional research suggests that news coverage of terrorism is a
tool of the terrorist to gain public support and recognition. Based
on an analysis of more than 200 evening newscasts aired during the
first six years of the Reagan administration, Tales of Terror
offers a detailed account of the ways in which news media escalate
public panic about terrorism and encourage support for specific
U.S. policy objectives, rather than build sympathy for terrorists.
Bethami Dobkin explores similarities between news media and
government portrayals of terrorism, combining textual criticism
with an interpretation of official U.S. policy statements, and
argues that government depictions and news presentations of
terrorism reproduce an ideology that supports military strength and
intervention. Dobkin examines several specific features of news
coverage: the dramatic format of television news and the political
interests that this format serves; the narrative construction of
enemies by television journalists and public officials and the
political significance of the "terrorist" label; the use and
significance of testimony, particularly that of people affected by
crisis; the mutual exploitation of political crisis by both
television news producers and public officials; the function of
journalism in shaping the conduct of public diplomacy and public
perceptions of foreign conflict; and the creation of consensus
about the need for military responses to political violence. This
revealing study will be of particular interest to scholars of
communications and political science.
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