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Download full textAtwater, Tony – 1986
Noting that television network coverage of hostage crises tends to emphasize the same topics while depicting them in similar ways, and that networks may be unwittingly granting legitimacy to terrorist grievances, a study investigated the nature of "NBC Nightly News" coverage of the Trans World Airline (TWA) hostage crisis. Specific…
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Content Analysis, Media Research, News Reporting
Peer reviewedAtwater, Tony; Green, Norma F. – Journalism Quarterly, 1988
Presents the results of a content analysis of network evening news coverage of the TWA hijacking of June 1985. Finds that hostages and relatives are the most frequent sources in the TWA hijacking story. (RS)
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Content Analysis, News Media, News Reporting
Atwater, Tony; Green, Norma F. – 1988
To examine how United States network news personalizes coverage of international terrorism, a study conducted a content analysis of videotaped reports relating to the TWA airliner hijacking of June 1985. Videotapes of the TWA hostage incident from "ABC World News Tonight,""CBS Evening News," and "NBC Nightly News"…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Content Analysis, International Crimes, Mass Media Role
