Miriam Sandum Naess

Jumps Right to Stereotyping

Sociology of the Media Assignment, November 2011

A bomb went off in Oslo and shortly after the youth camp of a political party was under attack as well. The media all over the world went ballistic. It would seem that was the news story of the year.

When the bomb went off in the government building Galtung and Ruge`s “news values” were set in motion. However, the media also showed another side of itself in the hours to come by stereotyping. It was almost immediately assumed that it had to be a Muslim terrorist group behind these attacks. The media assumed that there was no one else who could pull this off.

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"Today We Live in the shadows of these failures"

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The term “terror” was thrown everywhere, security was tightening and journalists in the open west was forbidden to publish in the sake of “national security.” But how did we get here? And most of all how did the superpower United States get there? These answers can you get by Gabriel Kolko in his book “Another Century Of War?” from 2002.

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