Reading Conflict – A Comparison of German and U.S. Newspapers’ Coverage of the Congo and Darfur Conflicts

• In Event: Coverage of Current Events

Brief Overview

The world’s news media largely ignored the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), despite its high death toll, in favor of smaller conflicts. This paper studies German and U.S. newspaper coverage to answer the question why.

Author

• Malte Pehl, College of Charleston