Framing Terrorism The News Media, the Government and the Public

Terrorism now dominates the headlines across the world-from New York to Kabul. "Framing Terrorism" argues that the headlines matter as much as the act, in political terms. Widely publicized terrorist incidents leave an imprint upon public opinion, muzzle the "watchdog" role of journalists and promote a general one-of-us consensus supporting security forces. Contributors to the volume begin by focusing on how governments, security forces and terrorist groups seek to manipulate the news, including the legal and normative issues of formal and informal government censorship and curbs on freedom of the press. They then focus upon how journalists construct the news and how the public responds to news coverage-including "rallying-round-the-flag," public attention and comprehension of terrorist events and the public's response to issues of civil liberties vs. security.

Preface
Introduction
1. Framing Terrorism, Pippa Norris, Montague Kern and Marion Just
I. Generating Terrorism Frames
2. Terrorism, Censorship and the 1st Amendment: In Search of Policy Guidelines, Doris A. Graber
3. Clausewitz in the age of CNN: Rethinking the Military-Media Relationship, Robin Brown
4. Framing the Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Tamar Liebes and Anat First
5. Paramilitaries and the Press in Northern Ireland, Tim Cooke
II. Comparing Terrorism Frames
6: Framing the U.S. Embassy Bombings in African and U.S. Newspapers, Todd M. Schaefer
7. Framing of the Afghanistan War by CNN and Al Jazeera TV, Amy E. Jasperson and Mansour O. El-Kikhia
8. Framing Muslim-Americans Before and After 9/11, Brigitte L. Nacos and Oscar Torres-Reyna
9. Framing World Opinion in the Elite Press, Frank Louis Rusciano
III. The Public's Response
10. Explaining 9/11, Michael W. Traugott and Ted Brader
11. Public Opinion Among Muslims and the West, Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart
12. Rally Round the Flag: The Dynamics of System Support, Paul Brewer, Sean Aday and Kimberly Gross
13. Fear and Terrorism: Psychological Reactions to 9/11, Leonie Huddy, Stanley Feldman, Gallya Lahav and Charles Taber
Conclusions
14.The Lessons of Framing Terrorism, Montague Kern, Pippa Norris and Marion Just Select Bibliography
List of Tables and Figures
List of Contributors

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