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标题：Narratives used to portray in-group terrorists: A comparative analysis of Israeli and Norwegian Press
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作者：Tal Samuel-Azran ; Amit Lavie-Dinur ; Yuval Karniel 等
期刊名称：Global Media Journal : Australian Edition
印刷版ISSN：1835-2340
出版年度：2014
卷号：8
期号：1
出版社：School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney
摘要：Studies have found that US media persistently ‘repair’ conflicting images of in-group (Christian and Jewish) perpetrators of crimes that fit the definition of ‘terrorism’ to conform to the conventional narrative that terror is the realm of Muslims. To evaluate whether this practice extends to other democracies, we examined Israeli press coverage of attacks against Palestinians by Jewish settlers (n =134) and Norwegian press coverage of attacks against ‘liberal’ targets by Christian extremist Anders Breivik (n =223). Content analysis reveals that Israeli and Norwegian press labeled in-group perpetrators as “terrorists” and their acts as “terrorism”. Based on comparative politics literature, we suggest that the Israeli and Norwegian journalists did not “adjust” the portrayal of in-group perpetrators due to the pluralistic worldview that characterizes journalists operating under a multiparty system. Furthermore, the Israeli press was more critical of the authorities for failing to prevent the crimes, compared to the Norwegian press, supporting the typology of multiparty systems suggested by Sartori (1976 ).