Through the eyes of the "Post": American media coverage of the Armenian genocide

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" Through the eyes of the "Post": American media coverage of the Armenian genocide "
Jessica L. Taylor M. E. Page

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	55102
Doc. No	:	TL25056
Call number	:	‭1466743‬
Main Entry	:	Jessica L. Taylor
Title & Author	:	Through the eyes of the "Post": American media coverage of the Armenian genocide\ Jessica L. Taylor
College	:	East Tennessee State University
Date	:	2009
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2009
Page No	:	144
Abstract	:	Many historians refer to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 as the first genocide of the twentieth century. In the context of the first global war, the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire were systematically persecuted and many eliminated while the world watched. Yet today, American memory and conception of the Armenian Genocide is remarkably different from similar historical events such as the Holocaust. The Armenian Genocide and America's reaction to it is a forgotten event in American memory. In an attempt to better understand this process of forgetting, this thesis analyzes the Washington Post's news coverage of the Armenian Genocide. By cataloguing, categorizing, and analyzing this news coverage, this thesis suggests Americans had sufficient information about the events and national reaction to it to form a memory. Therefore, the reasons for twenty-first century collective loss of memory in the minds of Americans must be traced to other sources.
Subject	:	Communication and the arts; Social sciences; Journalism; Modern history; 0391:Journalism; 0582:Modern history
Added Entry	:	M. E. Page
Added Entry	:	East Tennessee State University