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How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?

Hollar, Julie
http://fair.org/home/how-much-less-newsworthy-are-civilians-in-other-conflicts/

Publisher:  FAIR
Date Written:  18/03/2022
Year Published:  2022  
Resource Type:  Article

As US news media covered the first shocking weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some media observers -- like FAIR founder Jeff Cohen -- have noted their impressions of how coverage differed from wars past.

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As US news media covered the first shocking weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some media observers -- like FAIR founder Jeff Cohen (Common Dreams, 2/28/22)-- have noted their impressions of how coverage differed from wars past, particularly in terms of a new focus on the impact on civilians.
To quantify and deepen these observations, FAIR studied the first week of coverage of the Ukraine war on ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News. We used the Nexis news database to count both sources (whose voices get to be heard?) and segments (what angles are covered?) about Ukraine during the study period. Comparing this coverage to that of other conflicts reveals both a familiar reliance on US officials to frame events, as well as a newfound ability to cover the impact on civilians -- when those civilians are white and under attack by an official US enemy, rather than by the US itself.

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