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Bush's War

Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age

ISBN-13: 9780742536531
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
By Jim A. Kuypers
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Local release date: 05/10/2006
Format: Paperback (223.00mm X 152.00mm) 210 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Political leaders & leadership [JPHL]

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Google Preview: Immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans looked to President Bush for words of leadership. In his most formal reply of the day, he said, "Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror." The stark tone of Bushs speech suggested the promise of more words to come from the president, and it is these words that Bushs War addresses. While many books have offered a take on the attacks of 9/11 and their impact upon American society, one area has been comparatively ignored: presidential justifications for war in the age of terrorism. Specifically, what did President Bush say to justify American military actions in the post-9/11 world? And how did the public hear what he said, especially as it was filtered through the news media? The eloquent and thoughtful Bushs War shows how public perception of what the president says is shaped by media bias. Jim A. Kuypers compares Bushs statements with press coverage, arguing that the nature of American public knowledge concerning our role in the world has been changed-not by 9/11, but by the subsequent argumentative back-and-forth between Bush and the press.; Jim A. Kuypers is assistant professor of political communication at Virginia Tech.; Chapter 1 Media Bias and Presidential Justifications for War in the Age of Terrorism Chapter 2 A New Justification for War? Chapter 3 President Bush Speaks to the United Nations, November 2001 Chapter 4 The State of the Union, 29 January 2002 Chapter 5 Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2003 Chapter 6 President Bush Addresses the United Nations General Assembly, September 2003 Chapter 7 President Bush Commemorates Veterans Day and Discusses War on Terror, 11 November 2005 Chapter 8 News Media Reporting of the War on Terror; Google Preview content

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