Framing Frances Domestic Response to the November 2015 Paris Attacks Insights from Al Jazeera English

Abstract

This article examines Al Jazeera English’s framing of the French authorities’ domestic response to the November 2015 Paris attacks. The objective of the paper was to analyze the way Al Jazeera English framed the French government’s domestic response to the attacks using qualitative textual analysis method of the selected news articles. The findings show Al Jazeera English’s critical stance towards the domestic reaction of French authorities to the attacks. The network, voicing the opinions of French Muslim minority groups in its framing, contests the anti-terror operation and the state of emergency which occurred in the aftermath of the attacks. Its framing highlights a further marginalization and exclusion of French Muslim minorities who are already suffering from Islamophobia since the 9/11 attacks and after Charlie Hebdo attack. The article concludes that the network, in its framings, voices the views of the French Muslim minorities in its frames.