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Live Television’s Disaster Marathon of September 11 and its Subversive Potential

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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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By Menahem Blondheim

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.

page: 271 – 276
Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation
Volume 20, Issue 3

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