2019
Cairn
Emilie Roche, « Otages à la Une. La couverture médiatique de l’attentat des JO de Munich (1972) », Le Temps des médias, ID : 10670/1.z90guh
The purpose of this paper is to examine the media coverage of the Munich Olympics-Black September attack, september 1972, through French and American newsmagazines and ORTF and ABC News channel. In order to understand the suddenness, trauma and symbol of this event we will focus on media discourses and pictures. The aim of this study is to understand the media environment surrounding this attack and to show how traumatic this event has filled western collectiv imagination and social representations about political terrorism.