The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11 Book

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

Part I

1 Introduction: Understanding Public Drama 3

2 News as Public Drama: The Era of the Endless News Cycle 18

3 Making Public Drama: Telling a Good Story 39

Part II

4 Framing September 11: Overview of the Media and the Audience's Response 55

5 Seeking Sense amid the Shock: The Coverage on September 11 70

6 The Drama Is in the Details: Dramatic Amplification at Ground Zero 95

7 A Nation's Tragedy: Cultivating Emotionality at Ground Zero 117

Part III

8 America's Heroes: New York's Firefighters in the Spotlight 135

9 To the Stars Go the Spoils: Moral Currency and the FDNY 154

10 September 11 and Beyond: Public Drama in the Twenty-first Century 171

Notes 183

Bibliography 203

Index 217

About the Author 221