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<p>On Saturday afternoon, 14 February 2015, a man attacked a public meeting at Krudttønden in Copenhagen and later the city's synagogue, killing two persons. The attacks did not take the Danish media by surprise since they had recently been engaged in the coverage of similar events, reporting the attacks at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris in January 2015.</p>
<p>This article analyses how the Danish television channel DR1 framed the attacks in the newscast from the first shot at Krudttønden and for the following week. Furthermore, the analysis will discuss how the framing of the shooting as a “terror attack” transformed the news coverage into a “news media” media event, abandoning the journalistic norm of critical approach while the media instead became the scene of national mourning.</p>
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On Saturday afternoon, 14 February 2015, a man attacked a public meeting at Krudttønden in Copenhagen and later the city's synagogue, killing two persons. The attacks did not take the Danish media by surprise since they had recently been engaged in the coverage of similar events, reporting the attacks at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris in January 2015.
This article analyses how the Danish television channel DR1 framed the attacks in the newscast from the first shot at Krudttønden and for the following week. Furthermore, the analysis will discuss how the framing of the shooting as a “terror attack” transformed the news coverage into a “news media” media event, abandoning the journalistic norm of critical approach while the media instead became the scene of national mourning.

News Framing in a Time of Terror: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Copenhagen Shootings

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On Saturday afternoon, 14 February 2015, a man attacked a public meeting at Krudttønden in Copenhagen and later the city's synagogue, killing two persons. The...

News Framing in a Time of Terror: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Copenhagen Shootings

Publié en ligne: 07 juil. 2020

Pages: 85 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2016-0025

Mots clés
framing, terror, media events

© 2016 Hanne Jørndrup, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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News Framing in a Time of Terror: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Copenhagen Shootings

Publié en ligne: 07 juil. 2020

Pages: 85 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2016-0025

Mots clésframing, terror, media events

© 2016 Hanne Jørndrup, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Mots clés
framing, terror, media events