U.S. Media Framing of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1999: Religious Framing in anInternational Conflict?

This study examines the framing of religion in the news coverage of a conflict between India and Pakistan which happened from May 5, 1999 and July 30, 1999 in selected U.S. news outlets. The study looks into the coverage of the conflict in seven national and regional U.S. newspapers, and three U.S. television channels. The theoretical framework of this study was framing, and the frames of reactionary depiction and partisan alignment were used to study if the news outlets framed any country or its religion like Hinduism and Islam negatively or in a partisan manner.The findings showed that the coverage of the conflict covered Pakistan and Islam negatively, and held them responsible for invading India and escalating the conflict. The coverage also reported extensively on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism within Pakistan, the ties of Islamist organizations with the Pakistan government, and their hand in the rising violence in Kashmir. The coverage carried reactionary depictions of Islamic fundamentalism and its role in destabilizing Kashmir. The study of this coverage allows an insight into the coverage of a foreign conflict by some U.S. news outlets, and discovers that the coverage of Islam was reactionary and generally negative even before the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Journalism (Communication)

Grantor dc:publisher

Ohio University

Year dc:date

2013

Author dc:creator

• Atre, Sagar

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kalyango, Yusuf

• Asian Studies
• Communication
• Journalism
• Mass Communications
• Mass Media
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Religion
• India-Pakistan War
• U.S. Media
• Kashmir
• Islam
• Framing
• Reactionary depiction
• partisan alignment

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
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Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366198802

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:ohiou1366198802