A semiotic analysis of the newspaper coverage of Chernobyl in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Finland
Title: A semiotic analysis of the newspaper coverage of Chernobyl in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Finland
Author: REBECCA KAUFMANN / HENRI BROMS
Reference: Semiotica. Volume 70, Issue 1-2, Pages 27–48, October 2009
doi: 10.1515/semi.1988.70.1-2.27
Keywords: news, media coverage, U.S.A, Soviet Union, Finland
Abstract: As a disaster, Chernobyl invaded the minds of the world’s citizens unlike any other. More than a volcano, a stock market crash, or a student riot, Chernobyl received news coverage second only to that received by out and out war. As the co-Director of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media adduced: Ά nuclear accident is … a unique news event. Nothing else, short of a nuclear war, resembles it’. The American, Soviet, and Finnish press approached the uniqueness of the Chernobyl disaster in very different ways. While the American and Soviet news coverage lost perspective of what was truly at issue — a tragic nuclear accident — the Finnish news coverage threw few stones and tried to report the facts.
URL:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/semi.1988.70.issue-1-2/semi.1988.70.1-2.27/semi.1988.70.1-2.27.xml
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