inventing reality the politics of news media

Cox proportional hazard model and chi-square analysis were used to assess predictors of resolution and surgical intervention.Ī total of 87 infants with a median followup of 33.5 months were included in analysis. Third trimester prenatal ultrasound was done to evaluate SFU grade, laterality and anteroposterior diameter. Excluded from study were 30 infants with anatomical abnormalities. We evaluated a cohort of 117 infants with prenatal hydronephrosis and retrospectively reviewed outcomes. A secondary goal was to examine predictors of postnatal intervention. We validated the protocol of our practice, which parallels current Society for Fetal Urology (SFU) recommendations, in limiting voiding cystourethrogram, while examining its impact on the incidence of febrile urinary tract infections.

There is no consensus on the extent and mode of postnatal imaging after a diagnosis of prenatal hydronephrosis. This inscription of difference implicates the news media as a central player in the social construction, categorization and defamation of peoples and places in the emerging post-Cold-War geopolitical (dis)order. This frame relies almost entirely on non-African sources, depicting Africa as a timeless and placeless realm of “tribal” conflict, the repository of deep-seated US fears of African “others”. Through content and intertextual analysis of six major US newspapers, and through juxtaposition of news coverage of Bosnia, we reveal how the press distorts Rwanda coverage to fit a frame. Despite the comparable message potential inherent in these parallels, the US news media have elected to cast their coverage of the two wars in two different frameworks of understanding. Similarities can be found in military tactics and in how external imperialism, ethnicity, rural underdevelopment and even topography shape various parameters of the conflicts. There are many parallels between the current civil wars in Rwanda and Bosnia.

Inventing reality the politics of news media