ABSTRACT
This chapter explores representations of the Rockaways and Lower Manhattan in mainstream media texts. It shows at how the televisual coverage of Superstorm Sandy's devastation in New York City offered new ways of articulating neoliberal politics with extreme weather. This is particularly fascinating in the context of Sassen's argument that the neoliberal political economy of expulsions provides the economic means for the elite to inhabit global capitalist cities. The most common framing of post-Sandy Manhattan on television focused on the ways that climate change threatened the new economic order. The reporting propounded that centers of finance in a deregulated global economy need structures to shield them from climate change disasters so that the unrestrained accumulation of capital can continue. Television segments such as these also use the educational pedigree of these scientific experts to make it appear that Manhattan's well-being is the focus of the educational elite in America.
