Susan D. Moeller, Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit

摘要

In this book Susan Moeller discusses how the media in the West have dealt with international terrorism since 11 September 2001. She begins with a chapter concerned with the definition and the various semantic properties of the word 'terrorism' before turning to the relationship between the ways in which the North American and British governments have responded to terrorism and the ways in which it is covered by the media. She then devotes a chapter to the images of terror before adding a chapter as short conclusion. Moeller writes in a direct and uncomplicatedrnmanner, and yet it is difficult at times to follow her general drift and see how her broader argumentation is developing.