02036     2200217   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056245006900097100002000166250000600186260003500192300002300227020002200250084001700272520148200289082001101771650001501782990001001797990001101807INLIS00000000000965720211116102743  a0010-0721004916211116                g          0      1 aIntroduction To :bMass Communication Media Literacy And Culture1 aBaran,Stanley J  aV  aNew York :bMcGraw-Hill,c2009  a561 hlm. ;c27 cm.  a978-0-07-328913-7  a302.23 BAR i  aIntoduction to Mass Communication:Media Literacy And Culture 0n September 11, 2001, millions of Americans-in fact, millions of people around the globe-went to bed in shock. The world had changed. The United States no longer seemed invincible. Americans no longer felt safe at home. As everyone, from politicians to pundits to the people next door, said, "Nothing would ever be the same again. " Much, in fact, is the same
but not our view of the mass media. The questions we were asking about media in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the questions we are raising now are shaped in large part by what happened on that horrific day and by the events it spawned.At first we were impressed, even moved, by the performance of our mass media. The coverage of the attack and rescue effort in all media was thorough, knowledgeable, courageous, even-handed, and sensitive. But then we started asking, Why were we caught so badly by surprise? Why didn t we know about the anti-American feelings in much of the world? Where were the media? This question was asked again and again as the invasion of Iraq produced- none of the weapons of mass destruction that had been the casus belli. Had the media been too compliant? Was their lack of aggressive checking a function of economic factors such as concentration and conglomeration? Were the media s failures in the run-up to war the fuel igniting an invigorated media reform movement at home on the political Right as well as the Left?  a302.23 4aMedia Masa  a12337  a050185