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Media wars : news at a time of terror / Danny Schechter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schechter, Danny.
- Series:
- Polemics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Mass media and the war.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Landam : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Summary:
- Media Wars is a timely assessment of what we are and are not being told in the most important story of our new century.
- Contents:
- Part one: Warring with the coverage of war
- The attack: September 11th, 2001
- The day video cameras were everywhere
- Flashback: before 9/11, what was in the US media?
- The global news we ignore can be fatal
- Weblog: death and civic renewal
- A blow to the city
- Media weblog: week seven
- The "turbanators" and the terrorists: war crimes and media omissions
- Media weblog: the week of the skeptics
- The role of CNN
- Looking for light at a time of darkness
- Return to normalcy?
- Project methodology
- The war on terrorism: the not so new television news landscape
- An Indian perspective on media coverage
- "Terrorism" is a term that requires consistency: newspaper and its critics both show a double standard on "terror"
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742531082
- 0742531090
- OCLC:
- 51046784
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