Post-911 Media Coverage on Terror

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This paper argues that, ever since September 11th, the United States' media has aided the government's effort to direct the public's attention away from important questions concerning native terrorism and the administration's failure to prevent the terrorist attacks on the United States, despite the information it had on these attacks, by focusing attention on Afghanistan and Iraq as threats to the United States security.

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"Furthermore, the Jordanian intelligence also reached such information and did tell the Bush Administration but the Administration did not take these tips seriously, either (Trifkovic). This failure and the names of the intelligence agencies and the agents themselves were all published in European newspapers following September 11th together with the accusation that the US government had been careless in its duty, but the only American newspaper that published that story was the International Herald Tribune (Trifkovic). Even so, the mainstream American media did not raise this important issue (Martin). As with the anthrax case, this shows that the mainstream media is considering the political position of the government and its image in front of the American public, instead of focusing on the right of the people to know such important information."

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