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- Title
The interplay of politics, economics and culture in news framing of Middle East wars.
- Authors
Melki, Jad
- Abstract
A significant part of a modern war entails the struggle over news frames to influence public opinion. Studying these news frames in a comparative international context may offer insights into the factors behind frame construction. The 2006 Lebanon–Israel war offers a well-defined case for such comparative study. This study examined how mainstream Arab, Israeli and US television networks framed the conflict. It found strong regional framing trends explained as an outcome of the interplay of political, economic and cultural factors that confined each network’s journalistic practices. The trends revealed a strong correlation between Israeli and US news framing, with some exceptions, and a division between two Arab media camps, both of which generally offered framing supportive of Hezbollah.
- Subjects
WAR in mass media; PUBLIC opinion; LEBANON War, 2006; INTERNATIONAL conflict; TELEVISION networks
- Publication
Media, War & Conflict, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1750-6352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1750635214537405