Rallying 'round the flag
Tags: TERRORISM & mass media; MOTION picture industry; COUNTERTERRORISM; POLITICAL science
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- FIGHT FIRE WITH FUNNY. Brachman, Jarret // Newsweek;8/23/2010, Vol. 156 Issue 8/9, p11
The article discusses why the U.S. should use more humor and ridicule in its efforts to combat the Al Qaeda terrorist organization. The author came to this realization after seeing a video in which Al Qaeda figure Ayman al-Zawahiri used humor to convey his message. In his view Al Qaeda is very...
- Supplying Terrorists the 'Oxygen of Publicity'. Dettmer, Jamie // Insight on the News;7/15/2002, Vol. 18 Issue 25, p47
Discusses the relationship between mass media publicity and the war on terrorism led by the U.S. Ways to defeat insurgency or terrorist groups; Impact of the mass media coverage of terrorism on the public.
- Dangerous Talk. Stolyarova, Galina // Transitions Online;4/19/2010, p3
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- Events nixed as H'wood security stays tight. McNary, Dave // Daily Variety;9/26/2001, Vol. 273 Issue 18, p1
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- Assaulting Hollywood. Sayre, Nora // World Policy Journal;Winter95/96, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p51
Focuses on assaults made by politicians on the motion picture industry of the United States. Investigation of the movie industry on charges of producing leftist films; Movies concerned with poverty or free speech; Anticommunist films; Science fiction movies of the 1950s.
- Duck hunting. Rooney, David // Variety;6/13/94, Vol. 355 Issue 7, p4
Reports on the rivalry between left- and right-wing supporters in Italy's motion picture industry. Motion picture director Pasquale Squiteri's denouncement of Nanni Moretti; Displaying of Donald Duck on the pages of both the left- and right-wing daily papers.
- SIEGE MENTALITY. Rafferty, Terrence // GQ: Gentlemen's Quarterly;Dec2001, Vol. 71 Issue 12, p105
Focuses on the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States on the motion picture industry and the movie-going public. Delay in the release of the motion picture 'Collateral Damage'; Popularity of action movies including 'The Siege'; Criticism of the depiction of...
- Wonder what's going through Osama bin Laden's mind? Read Canada's leading left-wing magazine. O'Neill, Terry // Report / Newsmagazine (National Edition);10/8/2001, Vol. 28 Issue 19, p2
Comments on views on terrorism expressed in 'Canadian Dimension' magazine and other publications. Opinion that the magazine's target readers are socialists, unreformed communists and others who share a hatred of capitalism and liberal democratic governments; Perception that the so-called...
