New Security Challenges

Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse

By: Andrew Hoskins, Ben O'Loughlin

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Paperback | 15 June 2009 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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'... the strength of this book lies in its ability to communicate important ideas from media studies to a broad audience of scholars interested in media discourse... Television and Terror effectively describes how television news, through the mediatization of events, works to constitute the social reality in which we live... In particular, it provides fodder for the argument that television can itself be hijacked as a weapon of terror as television news increasingly mediatizes events that take place in today's world.'

- Adam Hodges, Stanford University

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List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. x
Prologue: The (Terrorised) State We're in	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Television and Time	p. 22
Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of the 'CNN Effect'	p. 53
Talking Terror: Political Discourses and the 2003 Iraq War	p. 74
Television's Quagmire: The Misremembered and the Unforgotten	p. 99
The Distant Body	p. 118
Drama and Documentary: The Power of Nightmares	p. 139
Security and Publics: Democratic Times?	p. 161
The Irresolution of Television	p. 187
Notes	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 212
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