Date of Graduation
2005
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
Committee Chair
Terry Wimmer
Abstract
Content analysis of 597 Vietnam stories published by the New York Times in eight years (1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001) found the coverage of Vietnam shrank gradually in each decade. Long and front-page stories accounted for very low percentages in the sample, though the paper did not give Vietnam an increasingly lower priority in front-page placement and length. The coverage of postwar Vietnam was essentially neutral in the text but biased in its choice of topics. Vietnam news had a distinct American orientation, and remained largely politically and Washington driven. These findings indicate the New York Times neither provided adequate information on post-war Vietnam nor served as an independent watchdog against the government, thereby failing to fulfill two important principles of the social responsibility theory.
Recommended Citation
Hoang, Ai Than, "Vietnam after "Vietnam": An analysis of international coverage in "The New York Times"." (2005). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD). 10916.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/10916