Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion

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

Book Overview

While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, Selling Fear is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism--and 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 9/11--including the issuance of terror alerts and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226567192
• ISBN13: 9780226567198
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"