The New York Times vs. The London Times

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This paper discusses the differences between the way the story of the Cuban child Elian Gonzalez was told in the New York Times and the London Time. The author believes the stories differ because of the differing interests and the application of different frames used on both sides of the Atlantic for shaping and delivering the story to the public. The author selected the New York Times and the London Times because they are both venerable institutions, not just in their own countries but also around the world, serving as models for how a newspaper should be run and as sources for major stories and issues.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Newspapers
Preliminary Observations
Media Frames
Coverage
Conclusion

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"The first filter is the fact that ownership of the media is highly concentrated among a few dozen of the largest for-profit corporations in the world, and many of these have extensive holdings in other industries and nations. Their desire for profit severely influences the news operations and overall content of the media. The second filter is advertising, which is responsible for most of the media's income and shapes what is discussed by proscribing certain issues on threat of withdrawal of support. The third filter is the need for sourcing, whereby "the mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information by economic necessity and reciprocity of interest" The fourth filter is the development of right-wing corporate antagonists to the media to put pressure upon them to follow the corporate agenda, a filter developed extensively in the 1970s when major corporations and wealthy right-wingers became increasingly dissatisfied with political developments in the West and with media coverage. The fifth filter is the ideology of anticommunism, which was long integral to Western political culture."

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