The Syrian crisis in U.S. and Lebanese newspapers
A cross-national analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12898985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raluca Cozma (0000-0003-0954-9828, Kansas State University, corresponding author), Claudia Kozman (0000-0002-2447-8485, Lebanese American University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-204 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Communication Gazette (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1748048517727217 |
| OpenAlex | W2752002025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 36 |
Building on scholarship on media systems, framing, bias, sourcing, and war journalism, this comparative content analysis explores how elite newspapers in the United States and Lebanon covered the international reaction to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its own citizens in August 2013. The analysis addresses the overlap between media and politics from a dual perspective: how news media in different countries frame international political crises and how the underlying political and media systems lead to similarities and variations. The comparison found that Lebanese newspapers dedicated four times as many stories to the crisis, but coverage in both countries relied heavily on officials and the conflict frame. When present, bias in Lebanese newspapers aligned with the partisan ownership of the news outlets, but their reportage was more thematic than U.S. coverage
Content analysis · Elite · Framing (construction · Journalism · Media bias · Media studies · News media · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Reporters and officials
Common Knowledge
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Peace Journalism
Journalism and Media Studies in Lebanon
Foreign correspondence
Inter-Media Agenda Setting and Global News Coverage
Looking beyond Flawed Journalism
Online Journalism and Political Activism in Lebanon
Peace and Communication
International News and Foreign Correspondents
Shooting War Or Peace Photographs? An Examination of Newswires’ Coverage of the Conflict in Gaza (2008-2009)
Projections of Power
Were the Murrow Boys Warmongers
Asian Conflicts and the Iraq War
Embedding the Truth
A Tale of Two Wars
The Syrian Crisis in the News
Seeing and not seeing the Syrian crisis
Diversity in Foreign News in US Newspapers Before and After the Invasion of Iraq
Contestable categories and public opinion
Framing
Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |