Journal: Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies
Year: 2020

By conducting a media frame analysis, the aim of this paper is to know whether and to what extent the Spanish large-circulation quality newspapers 'Abc,' 'El País' and 'La Vanguardia' portray Muslims and Islam as a strange, monolithic and problematic 'other'.Variations according to ideology and the nature of the events reported are observed.This is an empirical and longitudinal content analysis examining the full coverage (432 texts, once news related to terrorism were excluded) throughout an en