Korean Airlines Flight 007 versus Iran Air Flight 655

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Korean Airlines Flight 007 versus Iran Air
Flight 655
Korean Air Lines 007 269 Passengers and Crew Shot
down, Sep. 1, 1983
Iran Air Flight 655 290 Passengers and Crew Shot
down, July 3, 1988
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KAL 007
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KAL 007 Facts

• September 1, 1983
• Soviet Fighter Shot Down KAL 747
• 269 Passengers Crew Killed
• Soviets two hours to decide
• KAL nearly 400 miles off course
• Directly overflying Kamchatka top secret
  installation
• US spyplane (Boeing 737 based) had overflown
  earlier

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Iran Air Flight 655 facts

• July 3, 1988 USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air
  Flight 655 killing 290 passengers and crew.
• Iran Air was on normal commercial flight path.
• Iran Air did not respond to US warnings
• Iran Air was climbing (not in an attack mode)
• USS Vincennes Radar operator warned Captain that
  could be commercial airliner

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Framing Salience
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TIME KAL 007
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TIME Iran Air 655
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Framing SalienceHow big is the Frame?
Comparison of US Media Coverage KAL 007 and Iran
Air 655
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American Television Coverage

• KAL was lead story of major network news for 27
  out of 43 broadcasts in the two weeks following
  the incident.
• KAL was lead nine days in a row on every American
  network
• Iran Air was lead story for 14 out of 48
  broadcasts
• Iran Air was lead for first two days following
  incident.

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Framing Agency

• Who or what made it happen?
• Who or what is responsible or to blame?
• Who are the players?
• Who wins and who loses?

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FramingIdentification and Presentation

• How are the players presented?
• Can the reader identify with the players?
• Are they humanized?
• Demonized?
• Distant, foreign?

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New York Times Editorials

• KAL 007
• There is no conceivable excuse for any nation
  shooting down a harmless airlinerno
  circumstances whatever justifies attacking an
  innocent plane.
• Iran Air 655
• While horrifying, it was nonetheless an
  accident. The onus for avoiding such accidents
  in the future rests on civilian aircraft avoid
  combat zones, fly high, acknowledge warnings.

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October 24, 1983
September 19,1983
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The Ballad of Flight 007 Words Lyrics by Jerry
Griffin
Listen to the tale of Flight 007 and the sounds
are from Hell. It was flying the skies one
September day when a Russian Mig fired away.
.. The trial wasn't long not the jury fair the
price they paid was more then their share. Bodies
ashes flung for miles all for the missile that
didn't go wild... Truth evades the eyes
ears. See the baby hug her mother's breast the
little boy so proud with wings on his
chest. Death is blind and mostly unkind Listen
my children and you can hear bullets bursting
round' your ears.
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