Terrorists need an audience. Media needs a story; this is how media misinterpretations on terrorism is born. The media’s role is no longer to inform but rather to control how the viewers react to the information provided. Media’s influence on the public’s sudden focus from sports and celebrities to the collapse of the most globally important twin towers is an example of how media shapes viewers interest and concern. As David L. Altheide credits mass media in promoting fear evermore since the United States discovered international terrorism on 11th sept 2001. Before making mention of the research topic, for clarification and better understand the topic, the definition of Media is a source of communication, a medium to the masses that provides
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This research unlike others would highlight the true impact of media on the wider audience and how it truly influences the way the audience reads about terrorism. As Monahan describes news, a social construction of what the audience perceives as news is influenced by the individuals behind the creation of media presented to the …show more content…
(Scheufele and Tewksbury 11). As Iyenger and Otatti provide in the research that people rely mainly on mass media for information regarding political matters and the accessibility of the information provided is party determined by the events the media chooses to cover. (Iyenger and Kinder Page no). These events that the media provides information is what the audience bases its evaluations and judgements on. Priming of media was used by the Bush administration in the time after sept 11 2001. In the “The mass media and terrorism” David Altheide describes how media corporations artfully created an image of the world has changed by using fear and uncertainty to believe it was necessary to liberate those countries that were supposedly involved in the attacks of 9/11. He goes on to give an example of a blue-collar worker who believed there were 24000 terrorists in the United States because media channels implied that individuals that caused terror believed in death for a cause the way to seeing the lord. With this an assumption of all Muslims being terrorists rose. Church in “Jihad” and Altheide both go on to mention how the fears created by media helped the bush administration in using tax money, changing policies to make randomized interrogation permitted and basically making the war a
This research unlike others would highlight the true impact of media on the wider audience and how it truly influences the way the audience reads about terrorism. As Monahan describes news, a social construction of what the audience perceives as news is influenced by the individuals behind the creation of media presented to the …show more content…
(Scheufele and Tewksbury 11). As Iyenger and Otatti provide in the research that people rely mainly on mass media for information regarding political matters and the accessibility of the information provided is party determined by the events the media chooses to cover. (Iyenger and Kinder Page no). These events that the media provides information is what the audience bases its evaluations and judgements on. Priming of media was used by the Bush administration in the time after sept 11 2001. In the “The mass media and terrorism” David Altheide describes how media corporations artfully created an image of the world has changed by using fear and uncertainty to believe it was necessary to liberate those countries that were supposedly involved in the attacks of 9/11. He goes on to give an example of a blue-collar worker who believed there were 24000 terrorists in the United States because media channels implied that individuals that caused terror believed in death for a cause the way to seeing the lord. With this an assumption of all Muslims being terrorists rose. Church in “Jihad” and Altheide both go on to mention how the fears created by media helped the bush administration in using tax money, changing policies to make randomized interrogation permitted and basically making the war a