International Journal of Communication and Society
Vol 3, No 2: December 2021

A comparative analysis of cold war and post-cold war media framing of aviation disasters

Daud Isa (Boise State University)
Steve Urbanski (West Virginia University)

Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2021

Abstract

This study builds on previous research that examined U.S. media coverage of two airline disasters – KAL007 and IR655 – during the Cold War in the 1980s. It explores new Cold War frames in The New York Times and The Moscow Times’ coverage of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. Additionally, U.S. and Russian official narratives of the incident were compared to the MH17 coverage by the two selected newspapers. Results reveal an absence of hostile Cold War assertions but indicate a link between media frames and the U.S. and Russian government positions. Additionally, findings shed light on the Moscow-Washington relations against the backdrop of intense confrontation between Russia and the West not witnessed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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International Journal of Communication and Society
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ijcs

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Association for Scientific Computing Electronics and Engineering

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Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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The International Journal of Communication and Society is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study. The spectrum of topics include but ...