Abstract
Immediately after the sad incident of 9/11, world witnessed war hype in
the mainstream media of US and UK and the captions like “war on
America”, “America’s new War”, and the likes were beamed by major
news channels. The narrative, thus created, portrayed the war as the
sole option as the attacks were portrayed as an act of war. This study
explores, compare and contrast the role of the US and the British
media in the aftermath of 9/11 terrorist attacks. The question that has
been investigated is whether the imaginary of War was constructed in
the media of both these countries? The news headlines and talk shows
of two months period starting immediately after the 9/11 incident are
collected from the major US media (CNN, Fox News, New York Times,
Washington Post) and also news headlines of UK newspapers (The
Times London, The Independent UK) by using Lexus Nexus and are
analyzed using interpretive analysis. The post 9/11 responses of media
is analyzed in the light of framing theory and the domination of war
rhetoric seems a direct repercussion of the forthwith framing of the
events in terms of war by the administration. The political imaginaries
thus created shifted the balance of power towards the executive with
the military bureaucracy with its technical prowess and excess to all
information attaining a pivotal role.
Zia Obaid, Mehnaz Gul, Abdul Qaiyum Khan, Amir Hussain, Shahid Ali Khan. (2017) The Role of Media in Framing Political Imaginaries: Comparative Analysis of Media Response to 9/11, Journal of Managerial Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 3.
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