Africa’s Deadliest Conflict: Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997–2008

vii List of Tables and Maps Tables Table 3.1a: Network TV Coverage of the Second Congo War, by Year 53 Table 3.1b: Network TV Coverage of the Third Congo War, by Year 54 Table 3.2: Number of Stories Containing Empathy- or Distance-Producing Visuals, 1997–2008 55 Table 3.3: Evaluation of European and UN Peacekeeping Operations in the Third Congo War, by Year 55 Table 3.4a: Major Sources and Number of Times Used during the Second Congo War, by Year 56 Table 3.4b: Major Sources and Number of Times Used during the Third Congo War, by Year 57 Table 3.5: Use of Positive and Negative Descriptors, 1997–2008 58 Table 6.1a: New York Times Coverage of the Second Congo War, by Type of Content, by Year 125 Table 6.1b: New York Times Coverage of the Third Congo War, by Type of Content, by Year 125 Table 6.2a: New York Times Coverage of the Second Congo War, by Dateline, by Year 126 Table 6.2b: New York Times Coverage of the Third Congo War, by Dateline , by Year 126 Table 6.3: Number and Percent of Intervention-Supporting and -Discouraging Items during the Third Congo War, by Year 128 Table 6.4: Percentage of New York Times Darfur and Congo Coverage, by Type of Content 129 Table 6.5: Percentage of New York Times Darfur and Congo Coverage, by Dateline 130 Table 6.6: Percentage of New York Times Darfur and Congo Coverage, by Source of Content 131 List of Tables and Maps viii Maps Africa xiii Democratic Republic of the Congo xiv ...