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FROM PREJUDICE TO PRINT AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS AND THE REPORTING OF BLACK MURDERS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).10      10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).10      Published : Mar 2024

From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders

Abstract

    The present study explores the inherent ideologies of newspaper discourse and the subjugation of the readers to the said ideologies. 30 articles reporting Black murders by White policemen published in The New York Times, USA Today and Washington Post between 2014-2021 are used for creating three corpora of 25,561 words in total. AntCon 3.5.9 is used to generate the wordlist, N-Grams and concords; and LancsBox 6.0 is used to annotate the corpora.The study uses Critical Discourse Analysis and the Ideological Square Model of Van Dijk as its framework. The findings reveal that the use of certain lexical items plays a significant role in the construction of a discourse that abets the manipulation of the news. The deliberate omission of the ethnic identity of the victims and linguistically naturalizing the murders in the Washington Post makes it a racist and partial reporter of crimes. The New York Times and USA Today lean towards pro-black discourse.

    Corpus-based Analysis, Ideology, Racism, CDA, Ideological Square

    (1) Anila Rahman
    Graduate Scholar, Department of English, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Shumaila Ashee
    Lecturer, Department of English, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Sabeen
    Lecturer, Department of English, Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Rahman, A., Ashee, S., & Sabeen. (2024). From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders. Global Sociological Review, IX(I), 112-122. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).10

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Rahman, Anila, Shumaila Ashee, and Sabeen. 2024. "From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders." Global Sociological Review, IX (I): 112-122 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).10

HARVARD

    HARVARD : RAHMAN, A., ASHEE, S. & SABEEN. 2024. From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders. Global Sociological Review, IX, 112-122.

MHRA

    MHRA : Rahman, Anila, Shumaila Ashee, and Sabeen. 2024. "From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders." Global Sociological Review, IX: 112-122

MLA

    MLA : Rahman, Anila, Shumaila Ashee, and Sabeen. "From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders." Global Sociological Review, IX.I (2024): 112-122 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Rahman, Anila, Ashee, Shumaila, and Sabeen, (2024), "From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders", Global Sociological Review, IX (I), 112-122

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Rahman, Anila, Shumaila Ashee, and Sabeen. "From Prejudice to Print: American Newspapers and the Reporting of Black Murders." Global Sociological Review IX, no. I (2024): 112-122. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).10