Framing the Battle for the White House

A Comparison of Two National Newspapers’ Coverage of the 2000 United States Presidential Election

Bibliographic Data

ID7499152
AuthorsFaith Gan (Singapore Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, corresponding author), Joo Leng Teo (Singapore Airlines), Benjamin H Detenber (0000-0002-0054-0811, Nanyang Technological University)
Year2005
Volume67
Issue5
Pages441-467
Publication date2005-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0016549205056052
OpenAlexW1976373928
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited51

The unprecedented 2000 US Presidential Election provided the context for this study, which investigates patterns of news framing in two leading national newspapers. A comparative content analysis was conducted on all the election articles published in Singapore’s The Straits Times and France’s Le Monde between 7 October and 20 December 2000 ( N = 484). Significant differences in dominant frames employed in the two newspapers were found, suggesting a link between journalistic ideology and framing. Although both papers used the horse race frame frequently, the authors observed in tandem with this frame an unexpectedly high use of the issue/policy frame in Le Monde, which casts doubt on the assumption that the horse race frame is emphasized at the expense of issue coverage. The study also found that routine framing procedures were disrupted with the inability of the US to elect its president, and a new event-specific constitutional crisis frame emerged

Advertising · Battle · Content analysis · Frame analysis · Framing (construction · Ideology · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Social science · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics · History · Law

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