Abstract
The present study explores the inherent ideologies of newspaper discourse and the subjugation of the readers to the said ideologies. 30 articles reporting Black murders by White policemen published in The New York Times, USA Today and Washington Post between 2014-2021 are used for creating three corpora of 25,561 words in total. AntCon 3.5.9 is used to generate the wordlist, N-Grams and concords; and LancsBox 6.0 is used to annotate the corpora.The study uses Critical Discourse Analysis and the Ideological Square Model of Van Dijk as its framework. The findings reveal that the use of certain lexical items plays a significant role in the construction of a discourse that abets the manipulation of the news. The deliberate omission of the ethnic identity of the victims and linguistically naturalizing the murders in the Washington Post makes it a racist and partial reporter of crimes. The New York Times and USA Today lean towards pro-black discourse.
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