Media Theories
For my segment I used two articles in the new york times. one was written by warren hoge on march 27, 2004. In this article he referenced secretary general kofi annan who was at the time the head of United Nations peacekeeping . HE claimed that they knew genocide was occurring and took blame for not acting more to prevent it.
The second article was published June 10, 1994 by douglas jehl. He wrote about the killings in rwanda and how people were instructed NOT to say the word genocide.
A media theory that goes along with this is agenda setting. Through the use of their words and how the government talked about the events at Rwanda, they wanted the public to think a certain way about it.
agenda setting is also demonstrated because the government didnt want to get involved in Rwanda, and therefor didn’t allow words like genocide to be said in reporting, as that word brings negative feelings and would incite the american people to action.
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