The hostage crisis created sustained nightly anti-Iranian media panic

Evidence

The hostage crisis in Iran lasted 444 days and was the subject of a nightly prime-time network television show, The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage, which was eventually renamed Nightline and is still broadcast on ABC. For well over a year the nightly program curated images of American flags on fire in the streets of Tehran and footage of protesters chanting “Death to America, Death to [President Jimmy] Carter.” — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 82

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Iran hostage crisis opened the door for Reagan’s first war on terror — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 448; The 1979 Iran hostage crisis created the demand that birthed a new news format — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 130

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• The 1979 Iran hostage crisis created the demand that birthed a new news format (similarity 0.90)
• The Iran hostage crisis created Nightline and reshaped nightly network news (similarity 0.87)
• The Iran hostage crisis opened the door for Reagan’s first war on terror (similarity 0.81)
• Iran hostage crisis coverage monetized the fear of an encroaching Muslim threat. (similarity 0.81)
• Iranian hostage-takers staged media events timed for American broadcast deadlines (similarity 0.79)
• ABC launched Nightline mainly as a cheap marketing counter to Johnny Carson. (similarity 0.79)