Terrorism

What Does Terror Mean in a Media War?

by Sheldon Rampton — September 12, 2001 - 12:00am

Terrorism

"Terrorism is a new kind of warfare, tailor-made for the Information Age," observes John Rieger. "Terror spreads with the news. It's a war of impressions, of ideas, of symbols." TomPaine.com has also compiled a terrorism reader in an effort to comprehend the incomprehensible.

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TomPaine.com, September 12, 2001

PR Newswire Opens Wires

by Laura Miller — September 11, 2001 - 12:00am

PR Newswire opened its wires to companies whose crisis communications plans were activated by the attacks on the World Trade Center as a public service. The newswire sent out an e-mail to members at approximately 11a.m. The message read: "For PR Newswire members whose crisis communication plan has been activated by today's World Trade Center and Washington, D.C.

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The Holmes Report, September 11, 2001

If We Tell You, Terrorists Will Kill You

by Sheldon Rampton — August 16, 2001 - 2:30pm

It has been two years since Congress suppressed an overview of the risks to people from chemical plant explosions. Dangerous chemical plants, they argued, were potential terrorist weapons, and if terrorists knew which ones were most dangerous, they would target them. Congress also ordered the Justice Department to produce a report by August 2000 on how to protect chemical plants from terrorists and make them less dangerous. A year after that deadline, the report is nowhere to be seen.

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Environment Writer, July/August 2001

"The Woods Are Full of Eco-Terrorists"

by Sheldon Rampton — March 11, 1999 - 12:00am

By his own account, Barry R. Clausen has infiltrated radical environmental groups, staked out logging protests and helped bust a drug ring. He has testified before Congress about a rising tide of eco-terror, has been quoted scores of times in the national and international press and has appeared, he reckons, on 150 talk radio shows. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation and many other law enforcers don't see any sign of the surging eco-terror Mr. Clausen describes. Pressed, he acknowledges that his list of documented terror incidents includes graffiti and pie-throwings.

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Wall Street Journal, March 10, 1999