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Title: | Rwanda and the Media: Imagery, War and Refuge |
Author: | Karnik, Niranjan S. |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 78 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 611-623 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Rwanda |
Subjects: | press civil wars Politics and Government Literature, Mass Media and the Press |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249808704347 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4587B817EBF523B3C97D |
Abstract: | This paper is an empirical and interpretive analysis of 'The New York Times' coverage of the civil war in Rwanda and its consequences from 1989 through 1994, focused primarily on the photographic images presented. It shows which stories were left out (French/South African arms sales, Belgian colonial heritage, and World Bank/IMF interventions) and which errors were retained (tribalism as causation, dark continent/exoticization theories). The images that the media projected to the United States public show the multiple ways in which agency remains unproblematized especially with regard to gender and stigmatization. Through these images, the rhetorics of journalism frame much of the understanding of global events and consequently the responses to them. The article ends by arguing for the use of critical social theories to engage the media and politicians for change. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |