How is the BBC, CNN, and AlJazeera applying News Framing on the 2021 Israel Palestine Conflict and 2022 Russia Ukraine War?

Abstract

The idea of framing first came around in a book by sociologist Erving Goffman in 1974. The title is Frame Analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. In recent years the use of framing in the news has become increasingly prevalent by news media outlets, it is defined as the construction of a tailored message to achieve a certain outcome or agenda. Each news media outlet has an angle or perspective they are reporting on, in some cases bias of one conflict or the other can be explicitly clear in published material. In this paper we will be exploring how three different news media outlets two of which are western media and the other is middle eastern covered the Israeli- Palestinian conflict in May of 2021 and Ukraine- Russia war in February 2022. We then will analyze how news framing theories were applied towards both conflicts and examine the language and images used to depict the themes of war. We examined articles and their accompanying visuals from the BBC, CCN, and AlJazeera, it was found that AlJazeera depicts a more in depth and realistic approach most of their coverage includes themes displaying the wreckage and ruin of war in juxtaposition the BBC and CNN’s coverage take on a more analytical approach.