Covering Bin Laden

Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipulation on a par with military, political, and ideological tools, and intentionally used interviews, taped speeches, and distributed statements to further al-Qaida''s ends.
 
In Covering Bin Laden, editors Susan Jeffords and Fahed Yahya Al-Sumait collect...