Media Framing of Cultural Destruction: Artsakh & Gaza
Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, is a historic Armenian area located in the Caucasus Mountains. In 2023, Azerbaijan invaded and ethnically cleansed the millennial-old Armenian population. The so-called civilized West looked the other way. Looking away has been harder to do in Gaza because of the enormity of the Israeli attack and the sheer scale of death and destruction. The Israeli goal in Gaza and the Azerbaijani goal in Artsakh is cultural and physical erasure. Both Artsakh and Gaza are reported as though they are just happening in a vacuum. By not providing context and background, journalists are guilty of media malpractice.
The recording was taken from a National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)/ Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues webinar, co-hosted and co-moderated by Marc A. Mamigonian, Director of Academic Affairs at NAASR, and Henry Theriault, PhD, Associate Provost at Worcester State University.
Speaker
Mischa Geracoulis
Mischa Geracoulis is a human rights journalist and critical media literacy expert. She is the managing editor of Project Censored, a media watch and education organization. She is on the editorial board of The Markaz Review. She is the author of Media Framing and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage: News Narratives about Artsakh and Gaza.
From a listener in Colorado –
Good program on how framing and propaganda work.
Jirarir in Boulder –
Good piece. For your production, nice touch with the “Outro music – Oud Virtuoso Richard Hagopian: Soode, Soode, It’s all lies, lies”. Such a classic Armenian song, fits so well with our psyche!