Volume IXNumber 1 December 2009

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CONTENTS

Introduction
John Nelson ..................... 1 Download this article as a PDF file (448 Kb)


Grounding Terrorism on Ground Zero: How 9/11 Informs U.S. Press Coverage of Political Violence
Kevin Mack.....................2 Download this article as a PDF file (1.3 Mb)

This study analyzes the breaking news coverage of the United States press during the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Previously, scholars such as Robert Entman and Elisabeth Anker found that U.S. media melodramatically framed the September 11, 2001 attacks and constructed a “War on Terror” ideology. Working from that theoretical perspective, the author posits this ideology influenced U.S. reporters and their style of reportage about the Mumbai attacks, as did breaking news characteristics and general patterns within journalism, such as regionalization. Research findings suggest that U.S. media localized the Mumbai attacks by borrowing concepts from September 11 and the “War on Terror” frame. U.S. newspaper stories and broadcast reports produced uniform analyses through repetition of precedents such as association of Islam with violence and overreliance on U.S./Western official sources.


How the West Lost Us: A Critique of Media Coverage of the Mumbai Attacks
Vamsee Juluri.....................17 Download this article as a PDF file (464 Kb)


An Interview with Vamsee Juluri
John Nelson.....................19 Download this article as a PDF file (536 Kb)


Profile of the Artist: Shalinee Kumari
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Gathering Reactions on the Mumbai Attacks, India’s ‘9/11’ on November 26th, 2008
Lotika Gulvadi.....................25 Download this article as a PDF file (444Kb)

This commentary by an Indian citizen living in the San Francisco Bay Area is representative of the deeply personal feelings held by many Indians after the Mumbai attacks. It was solicited by one of the editors of Asia Pacific: Perspectives in order to provide a non-academic and subjective reflection about a local incident with regional and global repercussions. The views of the author are hers alone, as is the title of the piece.

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