Live Television's Disaster Marathon of September 11 and its Subversive Potential
| Autor: | Menahem Blondheim, Tamar Liebes |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Prometheus, Vol 20, Iss 3, Pp 271-276 (2002) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1470-1030 0810-9028 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08109020210141434 |
| Popis: | Television's coverage of the tragic events of September 11 can be viewed and understood as a paradigmatic disaster marathon. The salience of the attack's visual images, their exclusivity on the screen for a protracted period, and the invisibility of their perpetrators enhanced the attack's effectiveness. The paper highlights a number of problems that the September 11 disaster marathon poses to the profession of journalism and to society, and points out possible remedies for the future. It ends with a short discussion of the ways in which television's coverage of the event both resembled and differed from the media-event model, and of theoretical aspects of its unique dimensions as a disaster marathon. |
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