ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how specific news media representations of violence are framed. Violent images from the supposedly holy land have taken on a sickening familiarity. The high incidence of violence in British television news also reflected more violence caused by terrorism and motivated by ideals, beliefs or religion. A related weakness, according to Galtung, is the failure to explore the causes of escalation, the lasting ramifications of bereavement and the impact of media coverage itself. In the USA, however, numerous radio and television reports also strongly supported the Islamic terrorist theory. Research from a child psychiatry group at the University of Oklahoma identified a 'strong correlation between the emotional distress of children and the amount of television coverage of the bombing they watched'. Returning to the redemptive narrative, this was expressed vividly through both sermons and many local painters reinterpreting Porter's photograph artistically.
