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Framing a ‘lone-wolf’ attack: CNN online news treatment on Norway massacre and Sydney hostage crisis

Since the terrorist attack on American soil in September 11, 2001, Western news media has been accused of being hostile toward Arabs and Muslim’s world in general. Repeated themes developed around Muslim’s acts of terrorism in Western media were seen as the fuel that perpetuated the idea of Muslim c...

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Main Author: Jamali, bin Bujang Sanawi
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Language:English
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Published: UNIMAS Publisher 2017
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HT Communities. Classes. Races
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spelling my.unimas.ir.224972018-11-16T07:51:57Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22497/ Framing a ‘lone-wolf’ attack: CNN online news treatment on Norway massacre and Sydney hostage crisis Jamali, bin Bujang Sanawi H Social Sciences (General) HT Communities. Classes. Races Since the terrorist attack on American soil in September 11, 2001, Western news media has been accused of being hostile toward Arabs and Muslim’s world in general. Repeated themes developed around Muslim’s acts of terrorism in Western media were seen as the fuel that perpetuated the idea of Muslim culture being barbaric, uncivilized and backward in the mind of the Western society. While the argument is true (on some level) when the act were carried out by terrorist group such as Al-Qaeda, little is known on how media would react to such heinous attacks if it were perpetrated by a single individual or a ‘lone wolf’ attacker who hold different religious background. A total of 214 headlines on Norway massacre and Sydney hostage crisis that were published on CNN website were analyzed and it was found that there was a distinct treatment given to both cases. The findings reaffirmed Powell (2011) model of terrorism coverage whereby the Muslim easily became the immediate suspect in the wake of terrorism event. Apart from that, there were also differences in the description of the suspects in which the Norway massacre suspect was described as meticulous and his motive was thoroughly investigated while the Sydney hostage taker was portrayed as a criminal who subscribed to radical Islamic ideology. It appear that the way American media such as CNN framed the events could further enhance the exclusion of Muslim from the mainstream American public way of life and perpetuate the idea of ‘others’ against the Muslim community. UNIMAS Publisher 2017 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22497/1/iCMAS%202015%20Full%20paper%20Jamali_update.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22497/7/Framing%20the%20Lone%20Wolf%20Terrorism.pdf Jamali, bin Bujang Sanawi (2017) Framing a ‘lone-wolf’ attack: CNN online news treatment on Norway massacre and Sydney hostage crisis. In: Democratisation of Media: Issues and Realities. UNIMAS Publisher, Kota Samarahan, pp. 53-68. ISBN 978-967-2008-44-6
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HT Communities. Classes. Races
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HT Communities. Classes. Races
Jamali, bin Bujang Sanawi
Framing a ‘lone-wolf’ attack: CNN online news treatment on Norway massacre and Sydney hostage crisis
description Since the terrorist attack on American soil in September 11, 2001, Western news media has been accused of being hostile toward Arabs and Muslim’s world in general. Repeated themes developed around Muslim’s acts of terrorism in Western media were seen as the fuel that perpetuated the idea of Muslim culture being barbaric, uncivilized and backward in the mind of the Western society. While the argument is true (on some level) when the act were carried out by terrorist group such as Al-Qaeda, little is known on how media would react to such heinous attacks if it were perpetrated by a single individual or a ‘lone wolf’ attacker who hold different religious background. A total of 214 headlines on Norway massacre and Sydney hostage crisis that were published on CNN website were analyzed and it was found that there was a distinct treatment given to both cases. The findings reaffirmed Powell (2011) model of terrorism coverage whereby the Muslim easily became the immediate suspect in the wake of terrorism event. Apart from that, there were also differences in the description of the suspects in which the Norway massacre suspect was described as meticulous and his motive was thoroughly investigated while the Sydney hostage taker was portrayed as a criminal who subscribed to radical Islamic ideology. It appear that the way American media such as CNN framed the events could further enhance the exclusion of Muslim from the mainstream American public way of life and perpetuate the idea of ‘others’ against the Muslim community.
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title_short Framing a ‘lone-wolf’ attack: CNN online news treatment on Norway massacre and Sydney hostage crisis
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