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https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration
Fox News coverage of immigration at the U.S.- Mexico Border uses language to vilify, sensationalize, and dehumanize migrant people.
Fox News - media, newspaper, reporting, information, conservative, Republican, right-leaning, entertainment, lack of sources.
Immigration - migrants, emigration, asylum-seekers, Central America, Mexico, Asia, Europe, Greenland, families, children, children without parents, work, access to healthcare, education.
Language to vilify - headlines, sound bytes, sensationalize, dehumanize, other, disparage, causing panic, evoking anger, mean spirited, ugly.
Blah blah blah Fox News’s media coverage, uses problematic language serving to create a sense of fear about a tidal wave of migrants at the border (Casiano, 2022).
According to Chattopadhyay (2019), “mass displacement of marginalized groups of people has been a common trend in the twenty-first century” (p. 177).
Some scholars argue that “mass displacement of marginalized groups of people has been a common trend in the twenty-first century” (Chattopadhyay, 2019, p. 177).
References
Casiano, L. (2022, November 15). Texas sends first migrant bus to Philadelphia as Gov. Greg
Abbott targets sanctuary cities. Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-sends-first-migrant-bus-philadelphia-greg-abbott-targets-sanctuary-cities
Chattopadhyay, S. (2019). Invited article: “You are not welcome here!” Understanding news coverage
of Central American migrant families in Trump’s America. Journal of Family Communication, 19(3), 177–190. https://doi-org.prox.miracosta.edu/10.1080/15267431.2019.1632866
Strickland, J. (2019, October 29). How hackers work. How Stuff Works.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hacker
