Television and terror : conflicting times and the crisis of news discourse / Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin.
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TextSeries: New security challenges series: Publisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: x, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780230002319 (alk. paper); 0230002315 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Terrorism -- Press coverage | Television broadcasting of news | Journalism -- Objectivity | National securityDDC classification: 070.449363325 LOC classification: HV6431 | .H68 2007Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | NFIC | General Stacks | 070.44936 HOS 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | CIPS0000663 |
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.
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