This week's stories about alleged plots in NY and Colorado, etc. are beyond pure journalist reporting, and have a very inflammatory slant to them consistent with this objective and scholarly thesis. The media has a power that is far too great to overlook when reading or watching about such news.

While Bush (justly) gets the blame for tricking Americans into war in Iraq, he could not have done it without the MSM media. Neither could have Wilson or FDR for that matter.

from intro in thesis:

This comparative content analysis of three U.S. papers (The New York Times,
The New York Post, USA Today) and three British papers (Daily Telegraph, The
Guardian, the Sun) focuses on the usage symbols, claims making, security
measures, and techniques of investigation to articulate the difference of fear
producing symbols within select print media of each respective country.