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Framing the Enemy Following September 11
Jeff Patterson The University of Texas at Austin
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Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, Americans struggled to make sense of the motivations of those behind the attacks. Instead of ascribing the attacks to the criminal acts perpetrated by a few individuals, Americans sought grander answers that were writ large on the stage of international geopolitics and morality. The earnestly asked question "why do they hate us?" received a plethora of answers in the news media. The explanations were framed in a complex range of religious, economic, cultural, political, moral, and psychological rationales that not only defined whom the enemy was, but suggested how and where this new "war" should be prosecuted. The framing of the enemy in the war on terror has significant implications for the formulation of priorities and the implementation of government policies to combat terrorism. The presence and promotion of such themes was suggested in a recent content analysis of newsmagazines in the weeks immediately following the attacks (Hutcheson, et.al., 2004). In the study, Hutcheson, et.al., found that government and military leaders often articulated pro-American themes in their public communications in an attempt to unite the American public behind the eminent war on terrorism, and that news media tended to reflect and reinforce those strategic messages in its coverage (Hutcheson, et.al., 2004) . However, while the Hutcheson et.al., study spoke to the patriotic themes to coalesce public support, less attention was given to the definition of the "enemy" in the new war on terror. In very powerful ways, the definition of not only who "we" are in the Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
war on terrorism has to be juxtaposed against whom "they" are in the fight. Defining a presumed enemy and its motivations is essential to not only setting the boundaries on where, how, and to what end this new war on terrorism should be waged, but also encourages a situational definition of Americans' own collective national identity by establishing the parameters of inclusion and exclusion, or an "us" versus "them" scenario in which American (or Western) values and cultures are defined in contrast to other cultural, political, or religious structures. The purpose of this study is to define which definitions of the enemy and his motivations tended to dominate the coverage of the emerging war on terrorism, and the extent to which those themes were put forth by different political and governmental authorities as a strategic means of coalescing public support for the war. Depictions of enemies have always been considered instrumental tools in the conduct of political propaganda and psychological warfare. From prehistoric cave drawings, through pamphleteers and propaganda posters, to mass media images and websites, wartime propaganda attempts to indoctrinate the populace to a consistent image of the enemy. Social and individual contextualizations of an enemy in times of conflict have drawn a good deal of attention in the academic literature. Cognitive and social psychologists have explored theories that individuals psychologically need enemies as suitable targets for the displacement of their own personal fears and hostilities (Volkan, 1985); and as a means of Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
understanding and rationalizing events and circumstances (Silverstein, 1989). Sociologists have noted that conflict can have functional or positive benefits for groups, primarily that a common enemy can reconcile a group of people to sacrifice and fraternity, which may not have been possible during peacetime. (Hermann & Fischerkeller, 1995). Most pertinent are the studies of propaganda and the rhetoric of war, in which depictions of enemy images and ideology are found to play a significant role in social psychology by engendering animosity and fear of the enemy; by themes in which the opponent is inherently hostile, hateful, and intent upon destroying the values and livelihood of the society and individual (Perlmutter, 1999; Keen, 1986; Silverstein and Holt, 1989 Dower, 1986; Keene, 1986; Ivie, 1980). Groups in conflict tend to maximize the group-centric "good versus evil" differences between them, with events and circumstances being interpreted or framed in a way that draws a stark contrast between the virtues of one and the villainy of the "other" (Spillman, & Spillman, 1991). The concept of self and "the other" has been recognized in the social psychology literature since Carl Schmitt (1928) first introduced the concept of self and "other" as a tool of political analysis, by positing that state authority was linked to a collective understanding of the borders of social identity. Elites' ability to maintain these boundaries was essential to maintaining authority and cohesion; in other words, the process by which governmental leaders employing concepts of enemies to mobilize the nation around common aims and to support Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
policy aims in prosecuting the war. These images of other societies –either as rivals or enemies—is essential to maintaining state unity and legitimating rulers and policies. William Eckhardt has also indicated how enemy images can be used in propaganda and war preparation by political elites in preparation for war. (Eckhardt, 1991). These depictions are in line with what Johan Galtung terms to be cultural violence, in which the "symbolic sphere of our existence—exemplified by religion and ideology, language and art…that can be used to justify or legitimate direct of structural violence." (Galtung, 1990, p.291). For example, in Faces of the Enemy, Sam Keen (1986, p 44-66) shows how enemy images are historically categorized within a number of dehumanizing archetypes that overlap and mutually reinforce one another. These archetypes are by no means exhaustive listing, but includes images of the enemy as barbaric (a threat to civilized culture); the enemy as criminal; the enemy as torturer and/or committer of atrocities; the enemy as evil; the enemy as rapist/desecrator/subjugator of women; enemy as beast/inhuman; the enemy as death (or the ultimate threat). During the Cold War, Americans were consistently told that they were engaged in a struggle with a wily and implacable enemy bent on conquering the world and whose basic values are the antithesis of everything that democratic countries believe (Holt & Silverstein, 1989; Hurwitz & Peffley, 1987, 1990). This utilization of imagery to construct a view of an enemy can be specifically related to the political circumstances and cultures of the Middle East—particularly in regards to Islam. The West's conception of Islam is rooted Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
as far back as the Medieval Age of the Christian crusaders. Western imagery of Muslim enemies paints them in broad, oversimplified strokes that seldom distinguish between individual perpetrators, states, regions or factions and Islam in general (Esposito, 1991). Edward Said argues, American news media cover events related to Islam within a framework of pre-conceptions, prejudices and political interests which only perpetuates a narrow and unfavorable image of Islamic peoples. To Western eyes, the Orient is seen as being insular, backward, passive, and inferior; an antipodal perception essential to constructing the West's definition of itself. The Oriental male is presented as being feminine, weak, yet possessing a strangely malevolent and untrustworthy mystique. Too often, Said argues, the western media portray a myriad of Middle Eastern cultures, each made up of countless unique individuals with varying beliefs, as a single Oriental culture heavily influenced by zealots and kamikaze terrorists. Said's argument builds upon the observations of the news media playing a significant role in engendering such images and depictions of the enemy, particularly via the media's influence in shaping the audience's perceptions of social reality. The public relies on the mass media as secondhand sources to provide us with information about the outside world in which it can have little or no firsthand knowledge and conceives of only in the abstract. This mediated reality is a crucial component in the creation and interpretation of perceptions of foreign nationalities and circumstances, even if they represent only broad generalizations that may only project the characteristics of a prominent individual Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
or individuals that represent an entire culture, nation, or political philosophy (e.g., Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin) or of ethnicities in general (Holt & Silverstein, 1989). Philip Knightly (1975) asserts that one of the most tangible elements of war reporting is to "demonize" the enemy and portray him as "an animal in human disguise" to make the horrors and sacrifices of war not only palatable to the public, but engender support for governmental authorities' decisions and actions in pursuing the war. The news media's role in engendering and reinforcing enemy images can be explicated through theoretical approach of framing, in which the selection, presentation, emphasis and exclusion of media frames results in persistent patterns of cognition and interpretation that routinely organize content and the parameters of public discourse. (Reese, et.al., 2001) News frames are a well-established concept in communications research, describing the way that reporters seek to make their stories understandable to news consumers by drawing upon shared social/cultural themes to put events into context. By employing various stylistic cues, rhetorical choices, and determinations of salience and selection (i.e., emphasizing certain aspects of a news event while downplaying or excluding others) reporters "shape the way in which news consumers conceptualize situations, identify problems, evaluate solutions, assign blame/responsibility, and draw moral judgments" about the events being reported (Entman, 1993; Tuchman, 1978; Graber, 1988). News frames operate not only as a way for journalists to contextualize stories, but are Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
also the method by which news consumers use stored knowledge/previous experience to interpret and rationalize their understanding of events and social situations. News consumers are not merely passive recipients of news frames, but use a warehouse of common knowledge to filter and evaluate the information they receive. In other words, public opinion grows out of an interaction between how media messages are framed and the frames audiences use to make sense of them (Entman, 1993). This interaction between news and consumer frames is complex and contingent upon the circumstances in which frames are employed; essentially the concepts of activation, association, and inference. If as numerous cognitive psychologists suspect, that political knowledge is organized along linkages of concepts or memory constructs that differ in manner of their accessibility, then news frames could make certain information in news stories salient to the reader, while de-emphasizing other information. In this way, news frames stimulate and activate certain patterns of memory constructs: 1) by evaluating information as it is consumed (i.e., online-based model) for its salience, and 2) by recalling stored data with which to evaluate and reconcile incoming information to make political judgments (i.e., memory-based model). (Cappella and Jamieson, 1997; Bennett, 1981) When strategic news frames incite cynical judgments, it unduly influences the way that news consumers interpret/learn about events through activation (on-line-based processing) and/or association (memory-based processing).
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This study uses framing theory to explicate what thematic characteristics and motivations were used to define the enemy in the war on terrorism, specifically through identifying and categorizing specific attributes employed in the media portrayals. The study seeks to determine the frequency of those portrayals and the extent to which those themes were put forth by different political and governmental authorities as a strategic means of coalescing public support for the war.
Methodology This study is a content analysis of the newsmagazines Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and the Economist in the eight weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001 to identify the thematic attribute frames about the motivations and suggested causal factors underlying the terrorist attacks. The study limited itself to examining only those stories that dealt with those presumed responsible for the September 11 attacks and the prospective reasons/motivations that prompted the attacks. Newsmagazines were chosen for the medium of study because they generally provide more in-depth analysis of news events and are more likely to reflect a broader, more thorough range of sources to explain events. Also, in terms of effect, these publications generally saw the highest newsstand sales in their history, indicating that a significant portion of the public were at least exposed to their messages (Sutel, 2002).
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The analysis of these stories was conducted on two levels. The first used sentences within the stories as the level of analysis to identify the thematic attributes that explain the root causes and/or motivations of the terrorists and their sponsors. Individual sentences were chosen because quite often a number of different thematic attributes would be addressed in the same story, yet individual sentences tended to convey a specific thematic concept. Given the distinctive circumstances of the attacks of September 11, 2001—in which the appearance of an identified enemy was rapid and did not emerge gradually over a period of time—it was decided not to adapt the thematic categories from previous studies, but instead to identify those themes that became apparent from the texts themselves. Therefore, the thematic categories were derived through an initial reading of the stories, based upon two questions: How the terrorist/enemy is described in terms of its essential characteristics (i.e., criminal, evil, formidability), and what factors are emphasized as the reasons that motivate the terrorist/enemy. These thematic attributes were grouped into eight encompassing categories:
Culture These themes attributed terrorists' motivations as a "clash of civilizations" in which eastern culture was enmity of the forces of western culture, of which the united States was emblematic. This included historical references stretching back to the crusades through colonialism, tribalism, and a rejection of modernization, globalization, and western-style democracy that may have had a religious subcontext, but which were not specifically linked to Islamic beliefs.
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Morality These themes ascribed terrorists' motivations arising out of a general sense of immorality. In these attributions, terrorists were described as "evil," "barbaric," "malevolent," "satanic," and "hateful."
Religious These themes explain terrorists' motivations to be based upon fundamentalist, radical, or militant Islamic beliefs and the nature of the Islamic religion to be rooted in a level of violence.
Socio-Economic This includes theses in which terrorists' motivations are driven by poor economic conditions, a lack of education, unemployment, and a jealousy against the bounty of the west and the United States.
Middle Eastern Politics This theme characterizes terrorists' motivations as a function of political factors in the Middle East, such as the reaction to U.S. support of Israel, the political repression by corrupt governmental regimes .
Criminal These thematic attributes described the terrorists acting not only outside the rule of international law in terms of violent acts, but in circumventing laws in order to travel and disseminate resources, raising monies through illegal operations, and participating in drug running and illegal financial schemes.
Formidable These thematic attributes focus primarily on fear, describing terrorist "networks" as continually being a menacing threat, dangerous, powerful, ubiquitous, furtive, and untrustworthy.
Psychological These thematic attributes focus primarily upon the individuals within the terrorist network who are described as being psychologically unstable. For example, these attributes most often describe indefinite individuals as being psychotic, sociopathic, fanatical, loners, etc.
U.S. Foreign Policy These attributes ascribe terrorists' motivations to be reactions (or "blowback") from U.S. foreign policies either in the region generally or to predominately Islamic states in particular. Specifically, these attributes include references to the United States' support for Israel, the first Gulf War and the economic sanctions on Iraq, support of Mujahideen insurgents in Afghanistan in the 1980s, support for the shah of Iran, etc.
The second level of analysis sought to identify whether different thematic attributes tend to differ depending upon the types of sources. Specifically, the attributes will be categorized based upon one of five sources of the attribute: Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
to White House officials, government officials, U.S. policy experts, citizens, law enforcement, religious experts, academic experts, foreign sources, the terrorists themselves, and the journalist himself or no attribution. As was indicated in the study of patriotic frames employed following the September 11 attacks (Hutchinson, et.al., 2004), this level of analysis seeks to determine whether there exists a correlation between the type of thematic attribute and the source attributed to that attribute, in order to infer if there exists a strategic communication component by which political/governmental elites can be seen to setting the attribute agenda for the news media.
Results A total of 140 stories were coded from the four weekly magazines for the eight-week period following September 11, including the special editions printed by Time and Newsweek, resulting in 1,234 sentences selected and coded within the eight previously identified thematic categories. As can be seen in Table One below, an aggregate measure of descriptions of the enemy and its motivations in the war on terror were far more often focused upon the Islamic fundamentalists than any other attribute. A third of the attributions described the enemy to be Islamic militants acting out of their religious beliefs, nearly double the closest thematic attribute of the terrorist networks arising from Middle Eastern politics (15 percent). The magazines
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depicted the motivations of the terrorists as resulting from regional politics, cultural factors and U.S. foreign policy at about the same rate.
Table One: Thematic Attributes Describing Enemy in War on Terror and Their Motivations Themes Newsweek Time US News Economist TOTAL Militant Islam 134 36% 76 27% 122 32% 38 25% 370 30% Regional Politics 55 14% 55 17% 50 13% 21 14% 181 15% Cultural 36 9% 49 15% 64 17% 23 15% 172 14% Formidable 13 3% 49 15% 47 12% 23 15% 132 11% U.S.Policy 21 6% 38 12% 31 8% 29 19% 119 10% Morality 23 6% 19 6% 44 11% 11 7% 97 8% SociEconomic 31 8% 9 3% 15 9% 3 2% 58 5% Psychological 48 13% 4 1% 7 2% 6 4% 65 5% Criminal 12 3% 22 7% 5 1% 1 .6% 40 3% TOTAL 373 321 385 155 1234
There is a remarkable consistency in the percentages of thematic attributes across all four newsmagazines, even though some anomalies existed. With the exception of Newsweek, which gave greater emphasis to psychological attributes among the enemy (13 percent), the differences between the newsmagazines in content varied little. In much the same way, the descriptions of the enemy as a potent and imminent threat seemed to show up at about the same rate throughout the stories. Surprisingly, the second level of analysis—which sought to identify whether different thematic attributes tend to differ depending upon the types of sources—found a remarkably low level of source attribution to the thematic attributes described in the news stories. As is evidenced in Tables Two A and B, the newsmagazines were consistent in not attributing sources for the attributes and assertions made describing the enemy in the war on terror and its
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motivations. In more than 943 (76 percent) of the instances in which thematic attributions are made, journalists provided no source for the claim.
Table Two A: Source Attributions for Thematic Frames Themes Journalist/ No Attribute White House Govt Official US Policy Expert Citizen Cultural 140 4 9 1 Morality 41 12 13 Islam 295 3 10 4 Politics 164 2 7 29 2 SocEcon 49 15 Psych 48 2 2 Criminal 12 5 6 1 US Policy 100 10 9 Formidable 94 8 5 3 1 Total 943 34 39 67 23
Table Two B: Source Attributions for Thematic Frames Themes Law Enforce Religious Expert Terrorist Academic Foreign Expert Cultural 2 4 15 2 Morality 5 2 Islam 1 20 5 8 7 Politics 1 3 3 SocEcon 1 1 2 2 Psych 4 1 Criminal 18 1 US Policy 1 10 1 Formidable 2 2 2 2 Total 28 26 13 42 19
Discussion These findings indicate that trying to identify and understand the terrorist/ enemy in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks was clearly of interest to the public discourse. The sheer number of stories focused exclusively on identifying and describing the terrorist/enemy network (140) indicates a high level of interest to finding explanations and motivations. Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
Given the abruptness in which the attacks occurred, it is interesting to note the ways in which enemy images quickly corresponded to the traditional structures of enemy constructions envisioned in the previous academic literature. For example, Keen's typologies of the enemy (i.e., the enemy as barbaric; the enemy as criminal; the enemy as torturer and/or committer of atrocities; the enemy as evil; the enemy as rapist/desecrator/subjugator of women; enemy as beast/inhuman; the enemy as death) are loosely paralleled in the thematic attributes ascribed to in the stories. However, the overwhelming emphasis on religious and (to a lesser extent) political motivations in the thematic frames in explaining the reasons behind the attacks raises interesting issues on the effects on public opinion and the functioning of the news media in the first weeks of the new war on terror. Given Said's concerns of news media coverage being overly simplistic in terms of portraying the panoply of diversity of the Middle East and Islam, it raises concerns about the functioning of the news media in creating sufficient images with which to make rational choices in the sphere of public opinion. For example, previous explorations of the verbal and pictorial stereotypes used in media representations of minorities blames many of society's existing stereotypes to the journalistic struggles to represent reality within a limited amount of space and time through easily accessible frames (Lester, 1996). Journalists are often forced into a type of descriptive shorthand in which new information is typified accepted, rejected, or reshaped into such a way as to Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
preserve existing perceptions, worldviews and/or stereotypes. This processing model is only amplified by frames (Capella and Jamieson, 1997;Graber, 1988). While this sample is limited to weekly newsmagazines' coverage, it is reasonably assumed that their coverage can reliably indicate similar themes were framed in other media outlets at the time. While it is not possible to go back and collect survey data to see if the thematic frames as presented had an agenda-setting effect on public opinion, we can look at a contemporary survey conducted just two months after the attacks by the Pew Center for the People and the Press. Researchers conducted a telephone survey among a nationwide sample of 1,500 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period November 13-19, 2001. For the most part, Americans were asked why the terrorists attacked, with a majority (49 percent) believing that the terrorists were primarily driven by political motives and a smaller minority (30 percent) believing that the terrorists' religious beliefs were a factor. Familiarity with the Muslim faith has an influence on attitudes. Those who say they are most familiar with Islam are among the least likely to say they see a religious motivation to the attacks. Fewer than one-in-four (24 percent) of those who say they know at least something about the Muslim faith say religious beliefs alone were behind the attacks, while more than half (51%) say it was mostly political. By comparison, a third of those who say they know little or nothing about Islam think the attacks were motivated primarily by religious beliefs. Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001 What makes this study most curious was the level in which journalists at these newsmagazines did not attribute the thematic attributes to elites. Previous literature on the effects of media coverage of foreign policy issues strongly suggests that journalists follow the routine indexing of their coverage and language to that of U.S. governmental elites (Althaus, et.al., 1996; Bennett 1990; Entman and Rojecki, 1993; Chomsky, 1985). In this instance, however, the presence of such indexing by identification of source quotes and/or attributions seldom existed. There may be two reasons for this. The first is a reflection of the sample itself. The nature of the newsmagazine routines and structures, in which the weekly reports are a digestization of news reports from the preceding week, and the journalistic requirements for attribution may not be as rigorous (Gans, 1979). A second reason could be suggested by Daniel Hallin, in whose The Uncensored War is suggested that journalists can sometimes look upon the events or circumstances of what they are reporting (such as the perceptions of the world after September 11) are so clearly obvious and unassailable that getting someone else to authenticate it is unnecessary. Given the possibility that reporters and editors are themselves possibly affected by enemy images, it is reasonable to suppose that they assumed the public held and expected confirmation of those assumptions. But given the significant amount of literature suggesting that what the public knows about foreign affairs come primarily from reports in the news media, the over-representation of religious and (to a much lesser extent) political Framing the Enemy Following September 11, 2001
motivations in the depictions of enemy images have an impact on the process of articulating meanings, regardless of whether or not those images can be shown to have a correlation to the strategic intentions of political elites. There exists a relationship between the individual cognitive process and what might be conceived as a societal or group cognitive process that lead to an item's appearing in the news. The enemy image of terrorist/enemy is nonetheless a rhetorical tool used by the news media, which consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally, transmits an ideological message to the receiving audience.
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