Television journalism during terror attacks

Mogensen, Kirsten

doi:10.1177/1750635207087624

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“…(p. 187) Noticed here is how a discourse of solidarity was strengthened by the voices of important social actors and representatives from the elite sections of society (Matthews, 2016). Given the notable absence of cruelty, violence, injuries, and corpses in the coverage of terrorist attacks, which are more often revealed in war and conflict reporting (Fahmy and Daekyung, 2008;Katz and Liebes, 2007;Mogensen, 2008), stories of 7/7 focused largely on the testimonies of victims or material provided by participatory journalists.…”

Section: Studies On the London Bombingsmentioning

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Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland: A transnational agenda-setting network study

Guzek

2019

Journalism

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Existing studies have examined the significance of UK media coverage of the 7/7 London bombings. This article seeks to widen this analysis by exploring the coverage of 7/7 in the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland comparatively using a new agenda-setting perspective that is grounded within network analysis. The study is devised to respond specifically to the contrasting arguments about the influence of media globalization versus religion and ethnicity on this reporting. It finds that the diverse approaches to religion within the countries of the analyzed newspapers appear to mitigate the reproduction of shared religious narratives in this reporting. Nevertheless, the analyzed coverage does carry common attributes and these, it argues, can be explained broadly by the influence of a US-dominated ‘lens on terror’.

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Section: Studies On the London Bombingsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland: A transnational agenda-setting network study

Guzek

2019

Journalism

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“…Terrorist attacks like those in Paris are not only a national tragedy, but create an international crisis when they are perceived to threaten the core values that underlie society (Mogensen, 2008). Accordingly, such attacks typically receive extensive media coverage worldwide, and increase the public's media use during and after such crises (Althaus, 2002).…”

Section: The Impact Of Terrorist Attack News On Moral Intuitions and mentioning

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The Impact of Terrorist Attack News on Moral Intuitions and Outgroup Prejudice

Tamborini¹,

Hofer

Prabhu³

et al. 2017

Mass Communication and Society

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Using logic suggested by the model of intuitive morality and exemplars, we examined the impact of exposure to terrorist attack news coverage on the salience of moral intuitions and prosocial behavioral intentions toward outgroup members. In an experiment, participants were randomly assigned to watch news of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks or a control news story. Afterward, we measured the salience of five moral intuitions (sensitivity to care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity) and the participants' prejudice (i.e., the lack of intentions to help outgroup members). Results showed that exposure to terrorist attack news (a) increased the salience of respect for authority and subsequently (b) reduced prosocial behavioral intentions toward outgroup members. Closer inspection revealed that authority salience mediated the effect of terrorist news exposure on these behavioral intentions toward outgroup members. In a second study using the same design as in the first study, we ensured that the ingroup and the outgroup addressed in the first study were indeed perceived differently on dimensions of ingroup membership. AbstractUsing logic suggested by the model of intuitive morality and exemplars (MIME), we examined the impact of exposure to terrorist attack news coverage on the salience of moral intuitions and prosocial behavioral intentions toward outgroup members. In an experiment, participants were randomly assigned to watch news of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks or a control news story.Afterward, we measured the salience of five moral intuitions (sensitivity to care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity) and the participants' prejudice (i.e., the lack of intentions to help outgroup members) toward ingroup versus outgroup members. Results showed that exposure to terrorist attack news (1) increased the salience of respect for authority and subsequently (2) reduced prosocial behavioral intentions toward outgroup members. Closer inspection revealed that authority salience mediated the effect of terrorist news exposure on these behavioral intentions toward outgroup members. In a second study using the same design as in the first study we ensured that the ingroup and the outgroup addressed in the first study were indeed perceived differently on dimensions of ingroup membership.

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“…How the terrorist attacks were reported on has been studied by several scholars, both in a Swedish (see, e.g., Nord and Strömbäck 2006;, Nordström 2002 as well as in an international context (see, e.g., Aufderheide 2002;Coleman and Wu 2006;Zelizer and Allan 2002;Mogensen 2008;Bouvier 2005;Hoskin 2004;Reynolds and Barnett 2003). The role of history in journalism reporting has further been addressed in relation to how journalists cover news events (Edy 1999;Houchin Winfield et al 2002;Lang and Lang 1989;Robinson 2006;Edy and Daradanova 2006;Ryan 2004).…”

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Defining Crisis News Events

Olsson

2010

Nordicom Review

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Research on news organizations' handling of 'what-a-story's proposes that journalists find routines for handling these events based on their previous experiences of similar situations. Still, conceptual discussions on how to define extraordinary events or 'what-a-story's have thus far attracted limited interest. In response, the present article proposes a definition of 'what-a-story's in order to provide an understanding of what events become a part of news organizations' historical case banks. Accordingly, the aim of the article is to present a definition of crisis news events from an organizational perspective, which can help distinguish critical news events of importance to news organizations' learning and preparedness. The article argues that crisis news are to be understood as surprise events that challenge key organizational values and demand a swift response. Based on interviews with Swedish broadcasting media managers, the article illustrates how the September 11 th terror attacks can be defined as a crisis event.

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Television journalism during terror attacks

Cited by 21 publications

References 20 publications

Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland: A transnational agenda-setting network study

Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland: A transnational agenda-setting network study

The Impact of Terrorist Attack News on Moral Intuitions and Outgroup Prejudice

Defining Crisis News Events

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