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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the self/ other representation in news media. Media discourse helps to produce and reproduce stereotypes about the other to serve the favor of the dominant groups. Therefore, this paper attempts to uncover the bias and stereotypes against the other. To achieve this objective, the data for the analysis is gathered from three different newspapers: The New York Times, The Guardian and The Washington Post. The researcher analyzes the headlines and lead paragraphs taken from these newspapers based on Van Dijk’s (1998) Socio-Cognitive approach. The findings revealed that the ‘self is represented positively while the ‘other’ is presented negatively in news texts. This positive selfrepresentation vs. the negative other representation is ideologically based to serve the interests of the dominant groups.
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