In Munshi's article the author shares first hand observations of the attacks of September 11 and media coverage during and after the attacks. After the attacks American nationalism, religious devotion, and symbolism were at an all time high. The whole world was hurting from what had happened. One of my favorite quotes from this article is about the CNN anchor who teared up interviewing families. He said "we are trained to be dispassionate, but we are not expected to be inhuman." I think this shows that though journalists usually remain unbiased at times you can't help but have an emotional reaction to a story. Interview with families, survivors, and phone calls were played over and over again making the tv programming follow the confessional genre which provides people a language to work through stressful emotional issues. The Author also talks about how war is good for the media business because war sells better than even sex. War stories are always big stories and defining moments for journalists. After the attacks criticism of the war was hard to find basically everyone was supportive and patriotic to give the war a good face the only people openly opposing were on the internet.
Campbell article not on e-reserve.
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