Narrating, framing, and promoting U.S. interests and interventions in the 21st Century: multimodal discourse analysis of Iraq, Ukraine, Gaza.

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Associate professor of communication at Faculty of communication and Mass Media at British University in Egypt..(BUE )

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This paper provides theoretical and practical insights into the multimodal discourse that mainstream U.S. news conglomerates have used to promote the interests and interventions of the United States in the 21st Century in three locations of geo-strategic and economic importance, namely Iraq (2003), Ukraine (2022-) and Gaza (2023). The paper explores the interests and justifications behind these interventions and their tragic consequences and uses theoretical insights into narration, framing, and the strategic intermeshing of language, sound and image to conclude that CNN and Fox News reports support and promote U.S. aggressions, transgressions, and interests, by adopting a factual and curious tone, by channeling emotion to support U.S. interests and ideologies, by framing the U.S. as good and the Other as bad, by packaging atrocities as justice, by selecting their allies as sources, by neutralizing dissent, and by highlighting morality, military strategy, advanced weaponry, technology and infrastructure rather than grassroots Life-and-Death struggles.
 

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