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- Title
Typifying Terror: The Pattern of Storytelling in Terror News and the Case of San Bernardino Shooting.
- Authors
MORIN, Aysel
- Abstract
The study advances the argument that the news reporting of terror has increasingly become formulaic in the United States. This news frames the act thematically within the global war on terror discourse, uses lengthy storylines and background stories altering the conventional news reporting patterns, portrays the perpetrators as 'others' and foreigners even when they are U.S. citizens, configures the incident symbolically as targeting the entire nation, constructs images of a collectively suffering and mourning nation through victim and hero stories, and devotes the majority of coverage to these details while attending briefly to the actual journalistic questions of when, where, how and what actually took place. The pattern propagates ideological conceptualizations of terror as an Islam and Muslim-related phenomenon and contributes to the bias against Muslims. By studying the news coverage of the 2015 San Bernardino, California shooting the study reveals the typifying story elements creating this pattern.
- Subjects
TERRORISM in mass media; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media; REPORTERS &; reporting; ISLAM; TERRORISM; SAN Bernardino Shootings, Calif., 2015
- Publication
Global Media Journal: Turkish Edition, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 17, p33
- ISSN
1309-7601
- Publication type
Article