Abstract
In this paper, 36 English and 38 Spanish news articles were selected from English and Spanish newspapers and magazines published in the U.S.A. from August 2014 to November 2014. All articles discuss the death of Michael Brown, the ensuing protests and police investigations. A discourse analysis shows that there are few differences between reporting by the mainstream and the Hispanic media. Like the mainstream media, the Hispanic media adopts a neutral point of view with regard to the African-American minority. However, it presents a negative opinion with regard to the police. It appears that the Hispanic media does not explicitly side with the African-American community, but rather agrees more with the mainstream media’s opinion and is substantially influenced by it.
Highlights
In this paper, 36 English and 38 Spanish news articles were selected from English and Spanish newspapers and magazines published in the U.S.A. from August 2014 to November 2014
A discourse analysis based on the theories of Fairclough (2001) and van Dijk (2008) combined with the subdivision of social actors according to van Leeuwen (2008), was performed on this corpus in order to analyze whether the Hispanic media has a negative, positive or neutral point of view compared to the mainstream media with regard to the second most important ethnic community in the U.S, African-Americans
This research investigated whether the perspective of the Hispanic media towards the black victims of police violence by white police officers was equal to the perspective of the mainstream media
Summary
36 English and 38 Spanish news articles were selected from English and Spanish newspapers and magazines published in the U.S.A. from August 2014 to November 2014. The Hispanic media adopts a neutral point of view with regard to the AfricanAmerican minority. It presents a negative opinion with regard to the police. Un análisis discursivo demuestra que las diferencias entre el enfoque de los medios hispánicos y el de los medios en inglés son pequeñas. Igual que los medios en inglés, los medios hispánicos adoptan un punto de vista neutro respecto de la minoría afroamericana. Estos resultados parecen indicar que los medios hispánicos no toman explícitamente partido de la comunidad afroamericana, sino que prefieren seguir la corriente de los medios en inglés, que influyen de manera sustancial en ellos.
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