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Television and terror : conflicting times and the crisis of news discourse / Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New security challenges seriesPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230002315
  • 9780230002319
Other title:
  • Conflicting times and the crisis of news discourse
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.449363325 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6431 .H68 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Yet, the principle mass news medium of television has become torn between strategies of containment and the amplification of security threats. 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."--Publisher description.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 070.449363325 HOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A445630B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

"The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Yet, the principle mass news medium of television has become torn between strategies of containment and the amplification of security threats. 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."--Publisher description.

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