Framing and the Media - Abu Ghraib Prison

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, University of Phoenix, language: English, abstract: This paper will define the somewhat ambiguous term ‘framing’, and then discuss how it is utilized, in mass media. Then a recent news topic, the Abu Ghraib Prison situation, will be overviewed. Two news sources will be reviewed, one liberal, the other conservative. Their framing approaches will be compared, and the implications of these approaches will be discussed in detail.