War Themes: News Output and Search Interest

Recently, I was doing a project to see if there was a correlation of war themed News and the Search interest. I found that there was indeed. .86 for Iraq and a .46 correlation for the strategically framed “War on Terror” language. I guess Chomsky and Lakoff are/were right. These findings are also in line with a study in 2010 by Daniela V. Dimitrova and Jesper Strömbäck. Their research concluded that U.S. Elite newspapers had higher patterns of  military conflict framing, and  used more official government and military sources. In contrast, Elite Swedish newspapers displayed more “responsibility and anti-war protest framing”, and were more critical of the war.