Protest and Resistance

Abstract

There were different responses to the traumatic events of 9/11 that need to be remembered, but these were not equally represented in the mass media, which felt a patriotic duty to support the government and tacitly reinforced a strong national mood that soon quietened the initial questions about ‘why do they hate us so much to do something so terrible and sacrifice their own lives?’. The dominant mood soon made these questions difficult, as if the search for understanding was to be identified with somehow condoning terrorist actions.