Before the internet, the important news of the day was mainly decided by the print newspapers. This paper addresses whether this is still the case in the digital age by investigating the intermedia agenda-setting influence of print newspapers. We analyzed whether new stories covered on the front pages of newspapers were also covered in other news outlets, and if so who covered them first. This ...

This paper examines the depiction of Muslim militants in Thai newspapers in 2004. Stuart Hall’s “representation” and “public idioms” are used as theoretical frameworks. Critical Discourse Analysis is employed as a methodology to examine 240 news articles from two leading Thai language newspapers. The results show that the militants are usually labeled as “southern bandits.” This suggests that t...