Television and terror :
Hoskins, Andrew, 1967-
Television and terror : conflicting times and the crisis of news discourse / Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin. - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - x, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - New security challenges series . - New security challenges series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.
Television and time -- Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the 'CNN effect' -- Talking terror : political discourses and the 2003 Iraq war -- Television's quagmire : the misremembered and the unforgotten -- The distant body -- Drama and documentary : the power of nightmares -- Security and publics : democratic times? -- The irresolution of television.
In this book, Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its default impositions of immediacy, brevity and simultaneity, fails to deliver a critical and consistent exposition adequate to our conflicting times.
9780230002319 (alk. paper) 0230002315 (alk. paper)
2007038450
GBA761501 bnb
013810672 Uk
Terrorism--Press coverage.
Television broadcasting of news.
Journalism--Objectivity.
National security.
HV6431 / .H68 2007
070.4/49363325
Television and terror : conflicting times and the crisis of news discourse / Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin. - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - x, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - New security challenges series . - New security challenges series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.
Television and time -- Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the 'CNN effect' -- Talking terror : political discourses and the 2003 Iraq war -- Television's quagmire : the misremembered and the unforgotten -- The distant body -- Drama and documentary : the power of nightmares -- Security and publics : democratic times? -- The irresolution of television.
In this book, Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its default impositions of immediacy, brevity and simultaneity, fails to deliver a critical and consistent exposition adequate to our conflicting times.
9780230002319 (alk. paper) 0230002315 (alk. paper)
2007038450
GBA761501 bnb
013810672 Uk
Terrorism--Press coverage.
Television broadcasting of news.
Journalism--Objectivity.
National security.
HV6431 / .H68 2007
070.4/49363325