The War On Restraint.(American media)(Brief Article)

Newsweek International, November, 2001

So far, the war against terror has been a relatively small affair--but the jingoism quotient is as high as can be. The headlines tell it all. FOUND HIM? POUND HIM! screamed the tabloid New York Post last week. CNN's on-screen banner dramatically announces AMERICA STRIKES BACK. The tabloid media daily splash motifs of "revenge" and "obliteration" across front pages and TV screens. And there is talk of "smoking" the terrorists "out of their caves," as if they were vermin, and "killing the bastards."

Restraint seems to have been thrown out the window when one reads tabloid talk of "mad mullahs" and columnist Ann Coulter's desire to "kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" (although she was dismissed from her post at National Review magazine for...

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