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Not up for debate: U.S. news coverage of hunger in Africa.
- Source :
- International Communication Gazette; Feb2015, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p3-23, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This article explores how the U.S. news media construct the topic of hunger in Africa for U.S. audiences. Specifically, the article addresses how newspapers define and delimit the relationship between U.S. citizens and foreign sufferers. Through a framing analysis and critical discourse analysis of randomly sampled newspaper stories, the author finds that while news articles covering hunger in the United States usually frame the problem as pertinent to the public sphere, the victim as worthy of political action, and the reader as political agent, articles covering hunger in Africa frame the issue as irrelevant to the public sphere, the victim as removed from political action, and the reader as politically impotent. Interviews with journalists are used to understand why discrepancies occur. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- PRESS
HUNGER -- Social aspects
PUBLIC sphere
JOURNALISTS
PRACTICAL politics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17480485
- Volume :
- 77
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Communication Gazette
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 100515385
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048514556973