A Comparative Framing Analysis of President Trump's 72nd United Nations General Assembly Speech: Aljazeera, CNN and Fox news in Focus
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2018-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The mam purpose of this study is to analyze how CNN, Fox News and Aljazeera framed
President Donald Trump's speech during the nndannual summit of the United Nations General
assembly (UNGA) in their coverage from Sep. 3,2017 to Oct.4, 2017.Thirty two news stories
were collected in about one-month time and analyzed qualitatively. Qualitative content analysis
was used to get both the insights of the media outlets coverage of the speech of Donald Trump at
the UNGA and the topics that are salient in the speech of the President as well as the media
outlets. Framing analysis was used to analyze how the media outlets treated stories about the
President's speech and topics that are salient were also taken from the speech of the president
and analyzed separately. The major findings in the coverage of the media out lets are; conflict
and attribution of responsibility frames. They are also the dominant frames in all the media
houses in their coverage of President Donald Trwnp at the nnd UNGA studied under this paper.
Frame of danger is also the other dominant frame from the speech of the president. There were
also dominant topics from both the speech of the president and the media outlets covering the
event, "America first" is however, the common denominator for both the media outlets and the
speech of the president.
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President Trump's 72nd, United Nations, General Assembly Speech