Peace and Conflict Journalism - OCP

The article "Framing Russia-Ukraine War and Vladimir's Putin Image: A Content Analysis of New York Times Online Commentary Articles" is a very interesting study on a topic that is currently attracting the attention of the world public. The author examines journalistic articles (commentaries) published in the period under review by the "New York Times", concerning the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the image of Vladimir Putin in the context of agenda-setting and framing theory.

The advantage of the article is the fact that in the Review of Literature, the author presents different points of view and analysis of the image of conflict, separate from the Western ones. The fragment concerning the Russian way of narrating the war and the leader of Russia is particularly interesting.

The part of the article devoted to the theoretical framework concerning agenda setting and framing, thanks to the author's meticulousness, shows that both theories, although functioning for many years, still accurately depict the processes shaping public opinion and are constantly used by media experts. (Apt use of constructive and destructive frames).

The results obtained by the author are not surprising from the point of view of the Polish narrative on the Russian-Ukrainian war and the image of Vladimir Putin. The only element of the narrative that is not exposed in the Polish media is the one about the chaos in international relations, visible both in the analysis of the perception of the image of war and the image of Putin himself.

The author examines (what she writes about in the methodology) commentary articles. In my opinion, it would be interesting to examine the "NYT" news articles about the war from the same angle because then it would be possible to conclude whether the editorial office itself and its reporters, to the same extent as its publicists, share the views mentioned above and whether they try to maintain the standards of pure information - reliability and impartiality.

As a former press journalist and TV reporter, I will always emphasize the difference between these two journalistic genres - information/news and commentary articles. For this reason, I would suggest that in the Conclusions of the article, the author may consider using the word "reporting" associated with information/news journalism for an expression more appropriate in the analysis of commentary content.

The presented article will be beneficial for future comprehensive analyses of the media perception of war in Ukraine.
Monika Kożdoń-Dębecka