Scope and Method of Study. The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences and similarities in the media coverage of the Israel and Palestine conflict in the United States and in France. The first part of the paper discussed the evolution of the news coverage and the cur…
From December 1992 to March 1994, the United States engaged in peacekeeping operations in the war-torn, famine-stricken nation of Somalia. Military interventions, such as this one, provide an interesting intersection between rhetoric, public deliberation theorizing, and media st…
The mass media often act as agents of globalization. Although many studies have shown that international news reporting by the media is heavily influenced by particular views like a Cold War news frame, the discussion of media reporting has not gained much attention in the globa…
This dissertation is primarily a study of media coverage during the Iran-Contra and Lewinsky scandals of the Reagan and Clinton presidencies, respectively. In an effort to test the theories of priming and framing and to explore and understand why these presidents experienced div…