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1. "There is a complicity between the terrorists and the media. These attacks were made for TV: the terrorists didn’t choose a political target, and they showed no interest in political bargaining. Instead, they were using violence for effect, to generate attention and blast their cause on to the international stage"
2. "9/11 was the model here, for both the terrorists and the media. Where Beslan had screaming children, 9/11 had the towers collapsing, bodies falling, expressions of horror on onlookers’ faces. For days afterwards, the papers were filled with images that documented the event from every angle. Radio stations replayed the last calls from victims to their loved ones. Journalists reported the life stories of the dead and the grief of their relatives"
3. "people watching the news at the time were not protected by the usual mediation of the attacks by news reporting...the audience saw events of the day unfold live on air and the public were drawn into the story in a way they had not previously experienced"
4. " This was the first attack on US soil from a non-American source since Pearl Harbour in 1941 "
5. "The ‘war on terror’ was not a war like those that had gone before. The enemy was hidden and unidentifiable and the fear was that they could strike again at any time"
6. "Hollywood’s response was to create heroes. Classical Hollywood narrative provides reassurance and this structure was applied in the retelling of stories which gave us powerful heroes who save the day. These fantasies responded to the post 9/11 context and provided some comfort in a time when danger seemed very close"
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7. "Since Labour came to power in 1997, it has introduced five major pieces of terrorism legislation: the Terrorism Act 2000; the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001; the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005; the Terrorism Act 2006; and the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008"
8. "planning to attack the Danish newspaper that printed cartoons portraying the prophet Muhammad"
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9." Though the style is low-key and the comedy deadpan, what these guys are about is absolutely real: nail bombs, explosives, collateral damage, the whole nine yards. But the genius of this film is to take us into their world; we don't know what the motives are, or how they came to be radicalised, but we do know that they've assembled into a half-arsed cell by the time we meet them"
10. "conflicting emotions while the one-liners are flowing that the only thing you can do is give in to its demented logic and laugh"
11. "The traditional, liberal way to deal with anything as bold and brilliant as this is to look for the flaws, to find that bit of the canvas that isn't quite shaded and say, 'Look! There's a bit missing!"
used quotes:
12. "suggests that our knowledge of the world is constructed by media representations"
Andrews, M. Burton, J. Stevenson, E. (2009). p. 182
13. "ethnic minorities are continually misrepresented by racial (and racist) stereotypes"
Laughey, D. (2009). p. 78.
14. "Media stereotyping occurs when the roles and behaviour on personal characteristics of a particular group are portrayed in a limited fashion"
Williams, K. (2003). p. 131.
15. "“The hegemonic model acknowledges that much of the media is controlled by a relatively small group of people (who are generally male, middle class and white) and that the viewpoints associated with these groups inevitably become embedded in the products themselves.”
Baker, J. Clark, V. Lewis, E. (2003). p. 113.
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