Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and ProfitISBN: 978-1-4051-7366-7
Hardcover
248 pages
December 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Packaging Terrorism investigates how American media have
identified and covered international terrorism and violence since
September 11, 2001.
- Compares US coverage with that of British and Arab media
- Discusses the priorities, assumptions, political debates, deadline pressures and bottom-line considerations that will continue to influence coverage in the future
- Suggests how terrorism could be better covered by the media going forwards