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- Title
Media in the Wake of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing: A 20-Year Retrospective*.
- Authors
Fenwick, Ben
- Abstract
Objective This essay examines how communications breakdowns in the aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City led to errors in media reports. Method Drawing on my personal experience as a journalist who covered the event, combined with a comprehensive review of accounts and reports published since 1995, this essay examines how the errors originated and were disseminated. Furthermore, it reviews the communications systems in place then and now in order to consider how media and government might best confront communications challenges in postdisaster situations. Results The analysis of communications problems and errors in reporting offers lessons as to how government officials and media might better coordinate efforts to avoid such errors in the case of terrorist events.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OKLAHOMA City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995; TERRORISM &; mass media; TERRORISM; SOCIAL science research
- Publication
Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell), 2016, Vol 97, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0038-4941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ssqu.12252