“Una guerra, di fatto, invincibile”. Le narrative dei tg nell’attentato di Trébes

In recent years we have had to deal with a new kind of terrorism, a mass media terrorism, which is able to give the attacks a new driving force and a very special connotation, com- pared to the past. This essay analyzes the communication styles of the main Italian news broadcasts in the reporting of the Trèbes attack (23rd March of 2018) and aims to explain precisely how cultural narratives - and in particular media storytelling - build a structure of meaning in which to contain the single episode of violence, following the logic of television genres, such as fiction. With interpretative frames around facts, they represent symbolic re- sources to access the world with a standardized, hybrid and repetitive narrative structure.