Name: Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
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Author: Brigitte L. Nacos
ISBN: 9780226567198

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Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Univ Of Chicago Pr

Author

Brigitte L. Nacos

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

241

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.80

ISBN13

9780226567198

Synopsis "Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion (Chicago Studies in American Politics) "

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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