Research Article
Representation of Muslim Groups in the United States on the Houston Chronicle and LA Times during the 2016 Presidential Election
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.6-11-2019.2297304, author={Aldila Annisa Cahyaningtyas and Ully D. Putri and Bayu Kristianto and Irid Farida Agoes}, title={Representation of Muslim Groups in the United States on the Houston Chronicle and LA Times during the 2016 Presidential Election}, proceedings={Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Strategic and Global Studies, ICSGS 2019, 6-7 November 2019, Sari Pacific, Jakarta, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICSGS}, year={2020}, month={11}, keywords={muslim representation framing analysis newspaper print media}, doi={10.4108/eai.6-11-2019.2297304} }- Aldila Annisa Cahyaningtyas
Ully D. Putri
Bayu Kristianto
Irid Farida Agoes
Year: 2020
Representation of Muslim Groups in the United States on the Houston Chronicle and LA Times during the 2016 Presidential Election
ICSGS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.6-11-2019.2297304
Abstract
In news reporting, the media may have a positive, negative, or neutral picture of an issue. Typically, the picture is already painted based on their respective alignment. One of the factors determining a media alignment is the media’s political affiliation. This study focuses on the media coverage of Muslim groups in two major U.S. newspapers, with both having opposite political affiliations. The Houston Chronicle is a conservative daily newspaper, while the LA Times is a liberal one. An analysis is conducted on articles published by these newspapers from January 1 to November 8, 2016. After a selection process, five opinion and editorial pieces are chosen from each and analyzed using the framing model of Zhongdang Pan and Kosicki. The result suggests that, unlike the initial assumption that in principle a conservative media would portray Muslim groups in a simplistic way by presenting negative reports, the representation of Muslim groups during the U.S. 2016 presidential election in the U.S. media is more complex