Keywords
agenda setting, framing, content analysis, newspapers, elite media, Iran, elections, terror, terrorism, terrorist, Middle East, Islam, Khomeini, Ahmadinejad, Pahlavi, Tehran
Abstract
This study is a quantitative content analysis of the New York Times and Washington Post coverage of Iran during the period surrounding the Ayatollah Khomeini's ascension to power in 1979 as well as the period surrounding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election in 2005. The results showed that coverage of Iran in the elite American print media as it related to terror was higher in the period after Khomeini came to power and also in the period after Ahmadinejad's election than it was in the period immediately preceding their respective ascensions. The results also showed that there was more coverage of Iran as it related to terror in the year surrounding Ahmadinejad's election than there was during the year surrounding Ayatollah Khomeini's rise to power in Iran.
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Graduation Date
2010
Advisor
Akita, Kimiko
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Nicholson School of Communication
Degree Program
Communication
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003077
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003077
Language
English
Release Date
May 2010
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Kamal, Melissa, "A Content Analysis Of Elite U.S. Newspapers' Coverage Of Iran, 1979 And 2005" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4403.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4403
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