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El Salvador's Civil War as Seen in North and South American Press

,The way in which media interpret events involving international conflict is recognized increasingly as important in international relations.’ El Salvador was, during the final months of 1981 (as of course it has continued to be), one of the most dangerous “hot spots” of a rekindled cold war: a Western hemisphere society ripped apart by a civil war that has attracted international participation. This research reports on the “pictures of reality” regarding events in El Salvador as conveyed to readers by major newspapers in Argentina, Chile, Canada and the United States. What is reported by the press about El Salvador (or any other foreign crisis), is important because most of us are simply unable to evaluate independently such situations. Rather, we of necessity, must depend on the media for most of our information. Thus, in a real sense, a great deal of what we “know” about a given situation is based upon media reporting. In this particular study we examine press coverage of El Salvador over a 10week period in the Fall of 1981. The major question which we seek to answer is whether media images of “reality” regarding El Salvador differ for readers of news-