Il racconto mitico delle differenze. Obiettività ed emozionalità nel trattamento dicotomico di 25 anni di casi di cronaca

[Machine translation] Research on media and diversity rarely compares portrayals of Us and Them across the news. The present study does a content and discourse analysis of stories on women’ victimization that differ only in respect to the role performed by national or foreign characters. The main pillars of fact-based, “objective” journalism are thus quantitatively scrutinized in their dichotomic application to these two different sets of protagonists. A similar, qualitative analysis is then made on more emotional news based on storytelling. Finally, we explain the bias that emerges considering the shared cultural backdrop that pre-exists newsmaking routines, commercial considerations, and political bias.