A case study of the online coverage of the Christmas day Bombing Attempt in the New York Times

Abstract

A mediation regression model has been constructed to analyze the New York Times ’online coverage of the Christmas Day Bombing Attempt and the related systemic failure. The test shows that the Daily employed frames as variables that explain why and how the systemic failure took place on December 25, 2009. The variables also identify which US agency affected the US security system, allowing the terror attempt to take place. The analysis illuminates that through the variable databases, there is significant indirect causal effect of the variable system on the variable failure, and this causal relationship goes under significant impact of two covariate variables, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of State (DoS). According to the findings, framing projected by the New York Times ’website attributes 60% of the systemic failure to the CIA and the DoS.