On november 8 2001 the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs victoria clarke and a group of her aides had met with washington news bureau chiefs to discuss ways of improving coverage of the war against terrorism focusing at the time on afghanistan now it was january 9 2002 two months later. Analysts examined all stories about three main topics in the medias coverage of the war on terror the patriot act which was the focus of 91 stories the first of which appeared just a few days after the terrorist attacks the guantanamo bay prison which was discussed in 277 stories beginning just before the first prisoners arrived in january 2002 and the nsas surveillance program . The war on terrorism is a war of images just as the september 11 attacks were calculated not simply to wreak terrible destruction but to create a global media spectacle by targeting symbols of. The media and the war on terrorism ebook written by stephen hess marvin kalb read this book using google play books app on your pc android ios devices download for offline reading