Att ge utrymme åt etniska minoriteter i nyhetsmedia : en kritisk diskursanalys av The Huffington Posts underkategorier "Black Voices" och "Latino Voices"

Abstract: In the United States of America media and the press have the important role of being ”the fourth estate of government” which means that American media has the task to examine the political processes taking place within the country, as well as the USA's actions abroad. The importance of media not being biased or not framing certain kind of information cannot be overemphasized, but despite this, it happens that the media ex-ploits the power it possesses by affecting different discourses in unfavorable ways. It is not always obvious that a newspaper is trying to convince readers to think in a certain way which calls for the need to read between the lines when studying this specific news media. In this essay I will examine Huffington Posts subcategories ”Black Voices” and ”Latino Voices” to see if it is possible to identify any difficulties associated with this kind of targeted news. How do these subcategories reflect how the American society looks at minorities and their right to be included in the public sphere? Is Huffington post producing or reproducing stereotypical prejudices about minorities through assigning them unfavorable group identities? Through a critical discourse analysis, I will answer these questions about minorities and their representation in ethnic media.