{"product_id":"the-terrorism-news-beat-aaron-m-hoffman-9780472057306","title":"The Terrorism News Beat: Professionalism, Profit, and the Press","description":"Critics of terrorism news coverage often describe it as a sensationalized and intimidating area of reporting. However, this characterization offers a misleading guide to the coverage of terrorist threats and attacks, counterterrorism, and community responses to terrorism that appears in U.S. newspapers. Counterterrorism--not terrorist threats or attacks--is the most reported-on subject in newspapers such as the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Rather than focusing on accounts of terrorist attacks, militarized counterterrorism, or counterterrorism failures, journalists more often cover counterterrorism successes, criminal justice, and diplomatic or community responses to terrorism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Terrorism News Beat\u003c\/i\u003e engages thinking about terrorism and the news media from the fields of political science, communication, criminology, economics, and sociology using multimethod research involving more than 2,500 newspaper articles published between 1997 and 2018. Chapters analyze the terrorism news beat's subject matter, language, and coverage of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Olympic Park bombing, 9\/11 attacks, DC Sniper case, and Dallas Police shooting. When it comes to language use, Hoffman finds that, rather than giving into the temptation to convey the news in lurid detail, journalists are minimalists. The language used to depict events on the terrorism beat is typically moderate and extreme words like \"torture\" appear only as necessary. \u003ci\u003eThe Terrorism News Beat \u003c\/i\u003eshows that contrary to claims of sensationalism, the tone of terrorism coverage becomes even more sober during terrorism crises than it is during non-crisis periods and meets journalistic standards for quality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron M. Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472057308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472057306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.63d","brand":"Aaron M. Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747775271167,"sku":"9780472057306","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dda34822-f587-4f40-bf07-11af54b23cd5.jpg?v=1743584699","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-terrorism-news-beat-aaron-m-hoffman-9780472057306","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}