Anti-West frames dominate Afghan war news coverage

Elina Erzikova; Michel M. Haigh; Adam Sampiev

doi:10.1177/0739532916677055

Anti-West frames dominate Afghan war news coverage

Elina Erzikova, Michel M. Haigh, Adam Sampiev

Comm, Journalism & Media, School Of

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Abstract

A content analysis of war-specific frames used by Soviet mainstream newspapers Izvestia and Komsomolskaya Pravda during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan revealed that the national political system and foreign policy heavily influenced war reporting in the pre-Gorbachev era. In a censored environment, a highly polarized approach framed the West as the enemy and the USSR as the supporter of the Afghan people.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	393-404
Number of pages	12
Journal	Newspaper Research Journal
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532916677055
State	Published - Dec 1 2016

Keywords

Afghanistan
Cold War
Izvestia
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Soviet invasion
TASS
a binary logistic regression
content analysis
descriptive
framing
newspaper
quantitative
the USSR
war reporting

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