Twin Towers of Babel. 'War on Terrorism' and 'Anticipatory Pre-emption'

The early twenty-first century event that dominated the 'mediatised' world and the subsequent media landscape was that known simply by its date '9-11' or '11 September', a journalistic naming which came to signify the baptism of fire of the new millennium, giving meaning to the new era far more potently than artificial January 1 fireworks.