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This study finds that the issue of preventing terrorist attacks has received surprisingly little attention by decision-makers and the news media, and only sporadic interest by pollsters. When it comes to homeland security, how to protect the nation and its people from actual attacks takes a back seat to press coverage of threats and other aspects of terrorism, particularly the administration's arguments for fighting the 'war on terrorism' abroad as a means to prevent further terrorism at home. This inattention to the difficult task of preventing further catastrophic terror attacks by taking measures at home may affect the nation's vigilance as time has passed since 9/11. Adapted from the source document.

Terrorists, policy-makers, and terrorism scholars have long assumed that the mere threat of terrorist strikes affects societies that have experienced actual acts of terrorism. For this reason, most definitions of terrorism include the threat of violent political acts against civilians. But so far research has neither validated this conventional wisdom nor demonstrated how actual and mass-mediated threat messages by terrorists and terror alerts and threat assessments by government officials affect the public in targeted states. This paper fills the gap providing evidence that who conveys such messages matters and that mass-mediated threat messages by al Qaeda leaders and announced alerts and threat assessments by U.S. administration officials had a significant impact on the American public's threat perceptions in the post-9/11 years.

Terrorists, policy-makers, and terrorism scholars have long assumed that the mere threat of terrorist strikes affects societies that have experienced actual acts of terrorism. For this reason, most definitions of terrorism include the threat of violent political acts against civilians. But so far research has neither validated this conventional wisdom nor demonstrated how actual and mass-mediated threat messages by terrorists and terror alerts and threat assessments by government officials affect the public in targeted states. This paper fills the gap providing evidence that who conveys such messages matters and that mass-mediated threat messages by al Qaeda leaders and announced alerts and threat assessments by U.S. administration officials had a significant impact on the American public's threat perceptions in the post-9/11 years. Adapted from the source document.

"Terrorists, policy-makers, and terrorism scholars have long assumed that the mere threat of terrorist strikes affects societies that have experienced actual acts of terrorism. For this reason, most definitions of terrorism include the threat of violent political acts against civilians. But so far research has neither validated this conventional wisdom nor demonstrated how actual and mass-mediated threat messages by terrorists and terror alerts and threat assessments by government officials affect the public in targeted states. This paper fills the gap providing evidence that who conveys such messages matters and that mass-mediated threat messages by al Qaeda leaders and announced alerts and threat assessments by U.S. administration officials had a significant impact on the American public's threat perceptions in the post-9/11 years." (author's abstract)

Explores the extent to which the media reports extensively on global issues that lack the drama typical of warfare through examining US & German media coverage of global warming debates at the time of the 1997 Kyoto international conference. In the US, media reports concerning global warming were typical of domestic coverage rather than that of foreign affairs. Global warming debate coverage in Germany was less domesticated, largely because of German consensus on the matter & because Germany is not a major actor. Both the German & US news emphasized the role of the US on the outcome of the global-warming debate, & German media coverage was therefore very critical of the Clinton administration. The German media engaged in domestic power indexing through directing greater attention to the governing & opposition parties than to political actors. The German press covered global warming as a threat to humankind. Both the US & Germany indexed & framed the news to fit their domestic political meanings, making the hope that international news could be a unifying force among countries premature. 6 Tables. L. A. Hoffman