Research Catalog

Title

Media wars : news at a time of terror / Danny Schechter.

Author

Schechter, Danny.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cronkite, Walter

Description

xliv, 234 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Provides a critique and assessment of the media after 9/11. Includes web log entries, columns, and articles by correspondents and alternative journalists analyzing the events of 9/11 and the media's coverage of the U. S. government's war on terrorism. Stresses the lack of international coverage of the American media, examines the media distortion, oversimplification, and government propaganda as major roadblocks in accurate coverage of terrorism and war, and provides a thorough analysis of the news media and how 9/11 affected the content of broadcast and print news sources. Concludes that there is a lack of a truly free and independent press in America owing to government and corporate control.

Series Statement

Polemics

Uniform Title

Polemics.

Subjects

• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Press coverage
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Mass media and the war

Note

• "Introductory statement by Walter Cronkite."--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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"

ISBN

• 0742531082 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0742531090 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002153681

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library