Selling Fear Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion

Name: Selling Fear Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion
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ISBN: 9780226567198

ISBN-10: 0226567192

ISBN-13: 9780226567198

Edition: 2011

Authors: Brigitte L. Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Robert Y. Shapiro

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While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks,Selling Fearis the first detailed look at the role played by media incounterterrorismand 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 9/11including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraqthe 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…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Brigitte L. Nacos is a journalist and adjunct professor of political science at Columbia University.

Yaeli Bloch-Elkon is assistant professor of political science and communications at Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Robert Y. Shapiro is professor of political science at Columbia University.



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments



The News as Commodity, Public Good, and Political Manipulator



Selling Fear: The Not So Hidden Persuaders



Civil Liberties versus National Security



Selling the Iraq War



Preventing Attacks against the Homeland



Preparing for the Next Attack



Mass-Mediated Politics of Counterterrorism


Postscript. President Obama: Underselling Fear?


Notes


References


Index