News frames and media packages: Covering El Salvador

This article studies the coverage of El Salvador in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report from several months before the FMLN offensive of November 1989 to the peace accords of January 1992. The magazines are found to share a “media package” that depicts U.S. policy on El Salvador as well meaning. The range of views in the coverage corresponds to the range of views among ruling U.S. elites. Differences in coverage are connected to each news organization's world view and its links to specific segments of the elites.

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