doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.1.373
News Framing on the America-Iran Feud in the Coverage from Two American Online Newspapers
Sofea Azlena Tung binti Adib Vincent Tung 1,*
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- 1 Academy of Language Studies, MARA University of Technology, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
- 2 Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Abstract
News media framing has been explicated as a way to construct social realities by persuading readers with the schematics of differently construed proceedings and events. Hence, this study engages in a critical discourse analysis examining the social representation of America and Iran in the coverage from two American online newspapers, namely <em>The New York Times (NYT) </em>and<em> The New York Post (NYP)</em>. Since the United States has incited decades of simmering conflict with Iran that involves a global concern, this study also illustrates the polarisation of ideologisation in the coverage in relation to the two newspapers’ political leanings. The findings disclose a disparity of representation of social agents and ideological bias between the two news outlets, with the <em>NYT</em> presenting a balance of positive and negative ‘Us’, while the <em>NYP</em> exhibiting a prejudiced and one-sided ideology towards Iran. Consequently, this study sheds light on the critical role of news framing and highlights academically a systematic analysis of online news coverage considering their political dependency.
Keywords
- Framing
- critical discourse analysis
- ideological square
How to Cite
Sofea Azlena Tung binti Adib Vincent Tung and Surinderpal Kaur, "News Framing on the America-Iran Feud in the Coverage from Two American Online Newspapers," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.1.373
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