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- Title
Media, terrorism, and the politics of fear.
- Authors
Snow, Nancy
- Abstract
The article highlights the issues following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, both the U.S. corporate media and the Bush administration generated a politics of fear that enabled the administration to push through their right-wing agenda to invade Iraq. The following articles shows how both the Bush administration and corporate media in the United States privileged the clash of civilizations model, established a binary dualism between Islamic terrorism and civilization, and largely circulated war fever and retaliatory feelings and discourses that called for and supported military intervention, leading to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
- Subjects
TERRORISM &; mass media; TERRORISM; MASS media &; publicity; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; INTERNATIONAL crimes; POLITICAL crimes &; offenses; POLITICAL violence; SUBVERSIVE activities; TERRORISM in mass media
- Publication
Media Development, 2007, Vol 54, Issue 3, p17
- ISSN
0143-5558
- Publication type
Article