Framing Palestine: News Framing Of United Nations Resolutions on Palestine in U.S. And British Newspapers, 1993-2017

Abstract

This qualitative content analysis analyzes how a census of 124 articles retrieved from two elite U.S. and two elite British newspapers framed United Nations resolutions regarding Palestine between the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 through 2017. Among the findings is that the two U.S. newspapers (The New York Times and The Washington Post) published about twice as many articles on UN Palestinian resolutions than did the two British newspapers – The Guardian and The Times of London. The major finding is that the “war-and peace” frame strongly dominated coverage in all four periodicals, appearing more than twice as often as the next most common frame in The Times and The Guardian in the United Kingdom and The Washington Post and The New York Times in the United States. The study also found that, in contrast to previous studies, most reporting was neutral across all four periodicals.