Savages, Victims, Saviours: A comparative textual analysis of media framing of the Rohingya crisis by The New York Times and The Global New Light of Myanmar between 2017-08-01 and 2017-09-30
The successive waves of violence since May 2012, have put Myanmar in the international spotlight. The crisis in the Rakhine state has quickly become a global concern broadly discussed in the media. This paper examines how the Rohingya crisis is framed in Burmese and Western news media agencies by comparing the media coverage by The Global New Light of Myanmar and The New York Times between 2017-08
