Security journalism and 'the mainstream' in Britain since 7/7: translating terror but inciting violence?
Security journalism and 'the mainstream' in Britain since 7/7: translating terror but inciting violence?
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自 7/7 以来的安全新闻和英国“主流”：翻译恐怖但煽动暴力？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2346.2010.00919.x
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
HOSKINS A
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HOSKINS A
以安全新闻的形式报道恐怖主义的新闻，由于其自身的做法和新闻消费者的做法的变化，其职能面临着一系列挑战。安全新闻具有一些可预见的功能，即通过报道基地组织领导人的演讲、炸弹企图、刑事审判和英国的“激进”抗议等，定期向假定的国内（和国际）观众传达恐怖主义威胁。安全新闻提供了从一种语境和语言到另一种语境的圣战媒体产品的持续重新包装。例如，通过将圣战分子的文本缩减为一个愤怒的人的简短手势片段，安全新闻通过削减任何政治、宗教或感官吸引力，禁止公众了解其说服力潜力。本文提供了对熟悉圣战材料的英国穆斯林的采访的原始数据，这些数据表明，主流媒体的报道可能会以记者、政策制定者和公众没有充分认识到的方式促进激进化。受访者报告说，无论消息来源是主流媒体还是基地组织的媒体分支，任何描述穆斯林苦难的新闻都会激发并加剧挫败感和不满。主流媒体可能无意中助长了对圣战媒体存在的更持久但更广泛的怨恨；正如一位参与者所说，“我已经被说服了”。
News reporting of terrorism, in the form of security journalism, faces a set of challenges to the functions it serves as a result of both its own practices and the changing practices of news consumers. Security journalism performs some predictable functions, namely the regular delivery of representations of terrorist threats to a presumed national (and international) audience through coverage of Al-Qaeda leaders’ speeches, bomb attempts, criminal trials, and ‘radical’ protests in Britain, among others. Security journalism offers a consistent repackaging of jihadist media productions from one context and language to another. For example, in reducing jihadist texts to short clips of an angry gesticulating man security journalism is prohibiting public understanding of their persuasive potential by cutting any political, religious or sensual appeals. This article presents original data from interviews with British Muslims familiar with jihadist materials that suggest mainstream media reporting may contribute to radicalization in ways not sufficiently appreciated by journalists, policy-makers and the public. Interviewees report that any news depicting Muslim suffering activates and reinforces frustrations and grievances, whether the source is a mainstream media outlet or Al-Qaeda's media wing. Mainstream media may unintentionally contribute to a more enduring but diffused resentmenta priorito the existence of jihadist media; as one participant says, ‘I am already convinced’.