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dc.contributor.advisorThomas E. Pattersonen_US
dc.contributor.authorDesai, Neal (J.D. Student, Harvard Law School)
dc.contributor.authorPineda, Andre
dc.contributor.authorRunquist, Majken
dc.contributor.authorFusunyan, Mark Andrew
dc.contributor.authorGlenn, Katy
dc.contributor.authorGould, Gabrielle Kathryn
dc.contributor.authorKatz, Michelle Rachel
dc.contributor.authorLichtblau, Henry
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Maggie Jean
dc.contributor.authorWen, Sophia
dc.contributor.authorWong, Sandy
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-02T14:21:02Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationNeal Desai, Andre Pineda, Majken Runquist, and Mark Fusunyan, Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard Student Paper, April 2010en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4420886
dc.description.abstractThe current debate over waterboarding has spawned hundreds of newspaper articles in the last two years alone. However, waterboarding has been the subject of press attention for over a century. Examining the four newspapers with the highest daily circulation in the country, we found a significant and sudden shift in how newspapers characterized waterboarding. From the early 1930s until the modern story broke in 2004, the newspapers that covered waterboarding almost uniformly called the practice torture or implied it was torture: The New York Times characterized it thus in 81.5% (44 of 54) of articles on the subject and The Los Angeles Times did so in 96.3% of articles (26 of 27). By contrast, from 2002-2008, the studied newspapers almost never referred to waterboarding as torture. The New York Times called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture in just 2 of 143 articles (1.4%). The Los Angeles Times did so in 4.8% of articles (3 of 63). The Wall Street journal characterized the practice as torture in just 1 of 63 articles (1.6%). USA Today never called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture. In addition, the newspapers are much more likely to call waterboarding torture if a country other than the United States is the perpetrator. In The New York Times, 85.8% of articles (28 of 33) that dealt with a country other than the United States using waterboarding called it torture or implied it was torture while only 7.69% (16 of 208) did so when the United States was responsible. The Los Angeles Times characterized the practice as torture in 91.3% of articles (21 of 23) when another country was the violator, but in only 11.4% of articles (9 of 79) when the United States was the perpetrator.en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/torture_at_times_hks_students.pdfen_US
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dc.titleTorture at Times: Waterboarding in the Mediaen_US
dc.typePaper (for course/seminar/workshop)en_US
dc.relation.journalJoan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard Student Paperen_US
dash.depositing.authorPineda, Andre
dc.date.available2010-09-02T14:21:02Z
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dash.contributor.affiliatedFusunyan, Mark
dash.contributor.affiliatedMorgan, Maggie
dash.contributor.affiliatedGould, Gabrielle Kathryn
dash.contributor.affiliatedKatz, Michelle Rachel
dash.contributor.affiliatedPineda, Andre
dash.contributor.affiliatedWen, Sophia
dash.contributor.affiliatedWong, Sandy


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