Spanish television news frame immigrants and cultural minorities as harmful “others” unless they are wealthy, write Antonio Pineda, of University of Sevilla, Leonarda García-Jiménez, of University of Murcia, and Miquel Rodrigo-Alsina, of Pompeu Fabra University. The authors analysed 157 televised news stories that related to interculturality, aired on six Spanish television channels during one month … Continued

Dangers faced by compatriots supersedes the suffering of foreign locals, writes Emma Heywood, of Coventry University. The authors studied the coverage of the intra-Palestinian fighting in 2007 on three television channels’ main news shows. The research material was gathered in June 2007 from the British News at Ten (on BBC), 20 Heures on the French … Continued