Media Coverage of Terrorism: Talk with Kevin Quigley

Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, 630 Francklyn Street , Halifax, NS
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Media coverage of terrorist attacks – like other disasters and crises- follows patterns. In this presentation, Dr. Kevin Quigley will lead a discussion about those patterns, examining the volume and tone of coverage, who gets blamed, and who gets praised for their actions. Does media coverage of terrorism differ from other emergency events, such as natural disasters, industrial failures, pandemics and cyber events, and if so, how, and does media coverage of these events lead us to appropriate conclusions? 

Presented by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, Dr. Quigley will draw from research presented in Too Critical to Fail: How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure, which he co-authored. The talk will be given in the President’s Lodge - Atlantic School of Theology Campus. 

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Too Critical to Fail applies an investigative lens to the multiple and competing risks that the government balances to secure assets that enable modern civilization. Raising questions about Canadians’ ability to protect critical infrastructure and respond to threats, this book challenges the biases that determine who is held to account when the system fails. 
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Kevin Quigley is professor of public administration and scholarly director of the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance at Dalhousie University.