The Syrian crisis in the news: How the United States' elite newspapers framed the international reaction to Syria's use of chemical weapons

Raluca Cozma*, Claudia Kozman

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Drawing on scholarship on framing, sourcing, and war journalism, this content analysis explores how The New York Times and The Washington Post covered the international reaction to Syria’s use of chemical weapons against its own citizens in August 2013. The analysis found that stories in the month following the event focused primarily on diplomacy efforts and stopped paying attention to the ongoing civil war. Despite that, conflict framing was still dominant. The stories were generally thematic and richly sourced. The analysis lends support to the literature on the relationship between sourcing and framing as well as to the indexing hypothesis.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)669-686
Number of pages18
JournalJournalism Practice
Volume9
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign correspondence
  • Framing
  • Sourcing
  • Syria
  • War journalism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Communication

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