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1 - Elián González in the New York Times

Media Roles in the Trajectories of International Conflict

from Part I - Conflict Discourse in Newspaper Reporting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

By
Mark Finney  and
Sarah Fisher
Edited by
Innocent Chiluwa
Innocent Chiluwa
Affiliation:
Covenant University, Nigeria
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Summary

This chapter examines the New York Times’ representation of the Elián González custody case in 1999 within the broader context of the conflict between the United States and Cuba. The central question that frames this work is the extent to which the ideas that underpin the conflict can be shown to influence the Times’ coverage of this specific episode – i.e., the extent to which the coverage of an episode can be influential on the broader conflict. The results point to support for the hypotheses that the discourses represented by the New York Times in its coverage of the González case corresponded with the themes of the broader conflict between the United States and Cuba and that American sources represented in the coverage exemplified predictable attitudes about Cuba and Communism.

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mediacontent analysistextual analysisconflictCubainformation literacyNew York Times
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Discourse, Media, and Conflict
Examining War and Resolution in the News
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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