Insurrection or Protest? A corpus-linguistic analysis of the news reporting by CNN and Fox News based on the January 6, 2021, events at the US Capitol-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Insurrection or Protest? A corpus-linguistic analysis of the news reporting by CNN and Fox News based on the January 6, 2021, events at the US Capitol

Published:2024-09-09 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1868-0267
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Author:

Prahtel Tobias¹

Affiliation:

1. Cologne Germany 249450 TH Köln

Abstract

Abstract The question if the January 6, 2021, events at the US Capitol were an insurrection, a protest or something in between, is highly contentious, and the words someone uses to refer to those events may reveal a great deal about their political stances. The present paper performs a corpus-linguistic analysis in order to investigate how the two major US news outlets CNN and Fox News reported on the January 6 events. The corpus contains 633 articles from CNN and 847 from Fox News, all of which were written over a time span of 10 months, starting on January 6, 2021. The corpus analysis is preceded by a detailed analysis of each outlet’s position on the political spectrum and their respective audiences, both based on statistics from independent polling organizations.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/les-2024-0017/pdf

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