Chapter 1 Media Bias and Presidential Justifications for War in the Age of Terrorism Chapter 2 A New Justification for War? Chapter 3 President Bush Speaks to the United Nations, November 2001 Chapter 4 The State of the Union, 29 January 2002 Chapter 5 Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2003 Chapter 6 President Bush Addresses the United Nations General Assembly, September 2003 Chapter 7 President Bush Commemorates Veterans Day and Discusses War on Terror, 11 November 2005 Chapter 8 News Media Reporting of the War on Terror
Jim A. Kuypers is assistant professor of political communication at Virginia Tech.
This is a time of maximum danger for our country?a time of crisis.
The American people historically turn to the President during these
times for explanation, for comfort, and for exhortation to purpose.
Yet, the President does not speak directly to the people. His
speech is mediated; he speaks through the media, members of the
media comment on presidential speech, and others comment on the
comment. In short, the media 'frames' the presidential message,
thus ensuring certain reactions to it. Jim Kuypers is the best in
the business at explaining presidential crisis communication and
its relationship to the media. Regardless of your partisan position
on the War on Terror, Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for
War in a Terrorist Age must be onyour reading list..
*Dennis W. White, Arkansas State University; retired lieutenant
colonel, U.S. Army*
an important new book to examine how powerfully the president's
fortunes depend not only on what the administration says but also
what the media say the White House said.
*Presidential Studies Quarterly, December 2007*
This book is a concise and informative, even pleasurable,
read....Kuypers offers a well-developed argument worthy of
debate.
*Review of Communication, October 2007*
This is a skilled and thoughtful work of scholarship, well worth a
careful reading. Kuypers's book is provocative in the best sense of
the word: It can stimulate fresh thinking about presidential
rhetoric and press reporting of it—which Kuypers shows can be two
very different things.
*Stephen D. Cooper, Marshall University; author, Watching the
Watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate*
This is a time of maximum danger for our country—a time of crisis.
The American people historically turn to the President during these
times for explanation, for comfort, and for exhortation to purpose.
Yet, the President does not speak directly to the people. His
speech is mediated; he speaks through the media, members of the
media comment on presidential speech, and others comment on the
comment. In short, the media 'frames' the presidential message,
thus ensuring certain reactions to it.
Jim Kuypers is the best in the business at explaining presidential
crisis communication and its relationship to the media. Regardless
of your partisan position on the War on Terror, Bush's War: Media
Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age must be on your
reading list.
*Dennis W. White, Arkansas State University; retired lieutenant
colonel, U.S. Army*
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