Transnational news media coverage of distant suffering in the Syrian civil war: An analysis of CNN, Al-Jazeera English and Sputnik online news

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Media War and Conflict Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1177/1750635219846029

Xu Zhang, Catherine A. Luther

引用次数: 7

Abstract

This study analyzed news stories published on the online sites of CNN, Al-Jazeera English, and Sputnik to investigate how the transnational news outlets framed the human suffering associated with the Syrian war. Unlike prior studies that have tended to be based on traditional nation-state paradigms, this research approached the analysis from a cosmopolitan perspective. The findings revealed that in concert with standard journalistic routines and news values, all three news outlets commonly employed a mass death and displacement frame to depict human suffering inside Syria. The adoption of this frame suggests that in telling the story of human suffering, the three media outlets focused on brief facts and shocking statistics without detailed depictions of the human suffering. The meager presence of a cosmopolitan outlook in the news coverage indicates that although transnational media target a global audience with English as Lingua Franca, they cannot be completely independent of geopolitics.

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跨国新闻媒体对叙利亚内战中遥远苦难的报道：CNN、半岛电视台英语和Sputnik在线新闻分析

这项研究分析了美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)、半岛电视台英语频道(Al-Jazeera English)和俄罗斯卫星通讯社(Sputnik)等网站上发表的新闻报道，以调查跨国新闻媒体是如何描述与叙利亚战争有关的人类苦难的。与以往的研究倾向于基于传统的民族国家范式不同，本研究从世界主义的角度进行了分析。调查结果显示，根据标准的新闻惯例和新闻价值观，所有三家新闻媒体通常采用大规模死亡和流离失所的框架来描述叙利亚境内的人类苦难。采用这种框架表明，在讲述人类苦难的故事时，三家媒体关注的是简短的事实和令人震惊的统计数据，而不是对人类苦难的详细描述。世界主义视野在新闻报道中的微弱存在表明，尽管跨国媒体的目标受众是以英语为通用语的全球受众，但它们不能完全独立于地缘政治。

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Media War and Conflict COMMUNICATION-

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3.60

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15.40%

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期刊介绍： Media, War & Conflict is a major new international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively and extensively mediated age. It will explore cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices, and new media, and their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of warfare. Media, War & Conflict is the first journal to be dedicated to this field. It will publish substantial research articles, shorter pieces, book reviews, letters and commentary, and will include an images section devoted to visual aspects of war and conflict.