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January 9, 2024

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange [Audiobook]

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Free Download Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange (Audiobook)
English | April 01, 2021 | ASIN: B08X4YVJ7R | M4B@128 kbps | 17h 50m | 973 MB
Author: Anonymous | Translator: Malcolm C. Lyons | Narrator: Taheen Modak
This Penguin Classic is performed by Taheen Modak, best known for The Bay and Two Weeks to Live. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcom Lyons.
On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: ‘I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.’

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January 8, 2024

News Frames And National Security Covering Big Brother

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Free Download News Frames And National Security: Covering Big Brother By Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah
2015 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 0521113598 | PDF | 3 MB
Did media coverage contribute to Americans’ tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance. They argue that the tendency of journalists to frame stories around individual targets of surveillance – personifying the domestic threat – shapes citizens’ judgments about tolerance and participation, leading them to limit the civil liberties of a range of groups under scrutiny and to support ‘Big Brother’.

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