CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Korir, Lisa Chepkoech |
|---|---|
| Title | Framing Conflict: The Impact of Source Selection on Media Coverage of the Israel Palestine Conflict |
| Summary | This paper examines the impact of sourcing on the framing of Israel and Palestine in media coverage surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict. This study analyzed articles from the New York Times and The Guardian to establish the different frames and media portrayals between Israel and Palestine in the media. This study was guided by Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model particularly the third filter on sourcing and the concept of worthy and unworthy victims. This paper employed a mixed methods approach, I used quantitative content analysis and qualitative critical discourse analysis to answer the question on how the media has covered the parties to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The qualitative portion established the frames such as use of emotive and biased language, use of official sources and amount of media coverage. The quantitative portion of my study analyzed this frame via R and across a large corpus of article data. My thesis found that the media was overly reliant on elite and government officials for sources. This reliance on official government sources by the media has resulted in biased coverage as they report on what the elites say. The study shows that Israeli victims are treated as worthy victims and receive a lot of media coverage and portrayed in a more sympathetic tone while the media reserves loaded and emotive biased language for Palestinians highlighting their unworthy victim status. This biased coverage aligns with Herman and Chomsky’s concept of worthy and unworthy victims. |
| Supervisor | Fazekas, Mihaly |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/korir_lisa.pdf |
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