The terrorist attacks: news frames and filters Susan D. Moeller’s 1999 book Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine,

War and Death describes a typology of media coverage of assassinations and terrorist events that anticipates what we’ve seen in the last two weeks.

…there is rarely even any cognizance that the media’s rendition is itself

“framed.” Only if multiple similar events are compared is it made evident

that conscious choices guided the media’s coverage. Many news

frames appear to be natural, unforced, perhaps even self-evident ways

of reporting a story.

— Susan D. Moeller

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