The Bangkok Blast as a finger-pointing blame game

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changpeng Huan ◽  
Menghan Deng ◽  
Napak-on Sritrakarn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Moral Communities ◽  
News Event ◽  
Do So

Abstract This article sets out to explore the potential of journalistic attitudinal positioning in dis/aligning readers into different feeling and moral communities in traumatic news event. To do so, it utilises the appraisal framework to examine how the Bangkok Post and the New York Times present and represent ‘attitude’ of different news actors in the coverage of the Bangkok Blast. Analytical findings show that while journalistic attitudinal positioning constitutes a means of political empowerment through bringing in otherwise marginal and silenced voices, it also opens up a space for journalists to evaluate risks and negotiate responsibilities. News reports of the Bangkok Blast eventually construe the Thai society as divided by representing the event as a blame game. The findings also extend the conceptual scope of symbolic codes of victims, villain and hero by resorting to attitudinal resources.

Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Craig O. Stewart ◽  
Claire Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Policy Responses

Socioscientific controversies are “extended argumentative engagements over socially significant issues … comprising communicative events and practices in and from both scientific and nonscientific spheres” (Stewart, 2009, p. 125). While global warming is not controversial among the vast majority of climate scientists, socioscientific controversies over global warming abound in various media, as citizens, politicians, journalists, and others discuss and weigh the scientific evidence for and appropriate policy responses to global warming. In this chapter, the authors investigate the lexical choices used in the New York Times in straight news articles reporting on controversies about global warming from 2001-2006, as partisan differences on this issue became more pronounced. Specifically, using DICTION 5.0, the authors analyze 87 news reports, comparing those focused on science issues with those focused on policy issues. These statistical lexical comparisons are supplemented with qualitative discourse analyses.

scholarly journals Imagining big data: Illustrations of “big data” in US news articles, 2010–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Pentzold ◽  
Cornelia Brantner ◽  
Lena Fölsche
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Big Data ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The People ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Abstract Data

Imagining “big data” brings up a palette of concerns about their technological intricacies, political significance, commercial value, and cultural impact. We look at this emerging arena of public sense-making and consider the spectrum of press illustrations that are employed to show what big data are and what their consequences could be. We collected all images from big data-related articles published in the online editions of The New York Times and The Washington Post. As the first examination of the visual dimension of big data news reports to date, our study suggests that big data are predominantly illustrated with reference to their areas of application and the people and materials involved in data analytics. As such, they provide concrete physical form to abstract data. Rather than conceiving of potential ramifications that are more or less likely to materialize, the dominant mode of illustration draws on existing, though often trite, visual evidence.

A contrastive analysis of reports on North Korea’s missile program

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-665
Author(s):  
Weishan Liang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Attribution Of Blame ◽  
Rising China ◽  
Missile Test ◽  
China Daily ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The paper compares the representation of the November 2017 missile test in news reports by The New York Times and China Daily. The U.S. reports embody to some extent a Cold War mindset by tending to internationalize the issue and make itself appear as a victim of the crisis. Through the attribution of blame, the U.S. seeks to evade its responsibilities and maintain its hegemonic status. The Chinese reports intimate that the crisis is mainly a problem between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula. These reports tend to present China as a responsible stakeholder seeking to help solve the issue through communication and dialogue. The analysis of these differences is informed theoretically by perceived differences in culture. The paper concludes that the discourse patterns of these reports index a rising China and a shift in the balance of power in international politics.

Mission Intolerable: Harrison Salisbury's Trip to Hanoi and the Limits of Dissent against the Vietnam War

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
News Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Media ◽  
Full Knowledge ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
Do So

Recent scholarship has shown that U.S. policymakers went to war in Vietnam despite full knowledge of problems they would find there. Why then did policymakers set aside their worries and head down a highly uncertain road? This article proposes examining why institutions that criticized U.S. policymaking did not do so as forcefully as they might have. Specifically, it explores constraints that operated within the news media by investigating the controversy that swirled around a series of stories written by Harrison Salisbury and published by the New York Times in 1966 and 1967. These stories, written during and after Salisbury's extraordinary trip to North Vietnam,directly challenged several of the Johnson administration's claims about the war. Predictably, administration officials criticized the series. More surprisingly, Salisbury encountered condemnation from other publications and even his own paper. The article describes these critiques and discusses constraints on independent, critical reporting within the media.

What’s a Dog Story Worth?

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 819-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Atkinson ◽  
Maria Deam ◽  
Joseph E. Uscinski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
News Event

ABSTRACTJournalists consider the importance of events and the audience’s interest in them when deciding on which events to report. Events most likely to be reported are those that are both important and can capture the audience’s interest. In turn, the public is most likely to become aware of important news when some aspect of the story piques their interest. We suggest an efficacious means of drawing public attention to important news stories: dogs. Examining the national news agenda of 10 regional newspapers relative to that of theNew York Times, we evaluated the effect of having a dog in a news event on the likelihood that the event is reported in regional newspapers. The “dog effect” is approximately equivalent to the effect of whether a story warrants front- or back-page national news coverage in theNew York Times. Thus, we conclude that dogs are an important factor in news decisions.

Murder and Myth: New York Times Coverage of the TWA 847 Hijacking Victim

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Lule
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
International News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Reports

In June 1985, Shiite Moslem gunmen commandeered a TWA jetliner from Athens, Greece. The group held more than 150 people hostage and demanded the release of 700 Shiite Moslems jailed or detained by Israel. A passenger, U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem, was beaten and killed, his body pushed from the plane onto the runway. After 17 days of negotiations, with agreements reached for the release by Israel of hundreds of detainees, the hostages were released. Focusing on language in the New York Times, elite and essential for studies of international news images, a dramatistic analysis explores the newspaper's portrayal of the victim. The study suggests that the news reports of Robert Dean Stethem's killing may serve as a mythic drama of sacrifice. That is, in gripping portrayals of the victim's sacrifice to terrorism, the language of the news reports offers readers the opportunity to participate in a great drama of hope and despair, purpose and pain.

scholarly journals Social Actor Representation of the Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the Malaysian and Foreign News Reports: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Arlini binti Alias ◽  
Nora Mohd Nasir
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Intergroup Bias ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Foreign News

The objective of this study is to examine the linguistic representation of social actors in the selected Malaysian and foreign news reports on the circulated event of the missing MAS flight MH370. Despite extensive studies of news discourse, less attention is paid on how news event are speculated and the extent the social actors are relegated. Hence, the study explores the role of newspaper editorials in promoting stereotypical depictions through the representation of self- and other- in their reporting of the MH370 tragedy. The study retrieved a total of fifty (50) news reports of the missing MAS flight MH370 incident from ten news press, twenty-five (25) published by five local (Malaysian) English newsagents: The Star, New Straits Times, Sun Daily, Malaysian Insider and Malaysiakini, and twenty-five (25) others from five foreign newsagents: Daily Mail (UK), The Guardian (UK), Washington Post, New York Times and USA Today. The corpora were collected from March 8, 2014, to November 5, 2014, and analysed using Van Dijk’s (1998) Ideological Square framework, as well as Reisigl and Wodak (2000) Discursive Strategies. The analysis of this study discovers evidence of the “intergroup bias” made by the selected news press in representing the MH370 social actors. The selected news press displays an overt preference for own group and obvious demotion of the other group. The study also reveals the occurrence of lexicalization of the ‘other’ in the foreign news reports indicating positive representation of their in-group and exhibiting apparent disapproval of the actions by the out-group. On the other hand, the analysis also reveals an impartial representation of the MH370 social actor by the local news press both for in-group and out-group.

Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy

2014 ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Craig O. Stewart ◽  
Claire Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Policy Responses

Socioscientific controversies are “extended argumentative engagements over socially significant issues … comprising communicative events and practices in and from both scientific and nonscientific spheres” (Stewart, 2009, p. 125). While global warming is not controversial among the vast majority of climate scientists, socioscientific controversies over global warming abound in various media, as citizens, politicians, journalists, and others discuss and weigh the scientific evidence for and appropriate policy responses to global warming. In this chapter, the authors investigate the lexical choices used in the New York Times in straight news articles reporting on controversies about global warming from 2001-2006, as partisan differences on this issue became more pronounced. Specifically, using DICTION 5.0, the authors analyze 87 news reports, comparing those focused on science issues with those focused on policy issues. These statistical lexical comparisons are supplemented with qualitative discourse analyses.

The evolution of the “hot news” perfect in English

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-152
Author(s):  
Xinyue Yao
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Present Perfect ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contextual Influence ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
English Verb

This paper deals with the “hot news” use of the English present perfect. Previous research has suggested that this use marks the end point of the perfect category, paving the way for further grammaticalisation to a perfective or past tense. To examine its historical development in Modern English, verb forms in the leads of hard news reports in the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald were examined, with comparison made between two time periods, 1851–1900 and 1951–2000. Attention was given to contextual influence on the choice between the present perfect and the past tense for expressing hot news meanings. The quantitative findings show that the hot news perfect has not taken over the ground of other tense forms, but has become increasingly associated with unspecified, recent past time. The evolution of the English present perfect in general is characterised by register-mediated functional specialisation.

Feminist Killjoys and Women Scorned: An Analysis of News and Commentary on the Sexual Violence Allegations Against Julian Assange

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Harrington
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Flash Point ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
The Guardian

This article examines digital media debate over sexual violence by analyzing news reports and reader comments on the rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Through analysis of the Guardian and New York Times, the article shows how this case became a flash-point for debate about feminist constructions of sexual violence. News reports amplified Assange’s defense that the allegations stemmed from feminist influence on Swedish law and would not be criminalized in England, provoking feminist and anti-feminist commentary. Thus, this article illuminates the salience of feminist constructions of sexual violence for digital news and points to broader social contestation over the meaning of rape fostered by digital media.

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