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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
"counter"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.
"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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Selling Fear (Hardcover, New)
Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Robert Y. Shapiro, Brigitte L. Nacos
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R2,564
Discovery Miles 25 640
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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
"counter"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.
"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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