What should governments tell the public about terror threats?
What is the role of the media in the war on terror?
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  What should governments tell the public about terror threats?
What is the role of the media in the war on terror?
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These two online discussions will run in parallel to the conference at the Royal Institution, both to set the scene for the debates at the conference and to allow the discussion to continue afterwards.

The dialogues begin with specially commissioned lead articles. Readers are invited to put forward their own comments in response.
What is the role of the media in the war on terror?
  The need for a more sophisticated presentation
Dr Piers Robinson
School of Politics and Communications Studies
University of Liverpool

The role of US media during the war on terrorism is likely to closely follow the lead of Washington policy makers.
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Responses:
20 May 2003
More complex understanding is required
Ceri M. Bowen
Bradford Hospitals/Dept. of Peace Studies
30 May 2003
The legacy of crime reporting
David Altheide
Arizona State University
 
 
The ‘Communicating the War on Terror’ conference was part of a wider set of research activities co-ordinated by King’s College London with a number of partner institutions within its Economic and Social Research Council funded project on ‘The Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks’ under the ‘New Security Challenges’ programme.
 
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