Dwie dekady wolności. Obraz Polski na łamach amerykańskich dziennikóww latach 1989–2009
TWO DECADES OF FREEDOM. THE DISCOURSE ON POLAND IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS IN 1989–2009

Summary/Abstract: The USA is one of the world leaders in terms of the number of the dailies. Most of them are regional or local in character, but some of them (eg. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor or USA Today) have a global influence. This is the reason why it is worth doing the systematic reconstruction of the discourse on any country presented in the US newspapers. The aim of this article is to present some research findings referring to the reconstruction of configuration of actors, events, topics and values as presented in the press coverage of independent (ie. after 1989) Poland. The research is based on the examination of texts that were published in the years 1989–2009 in the American newspapers available in America’s Newspapers database. There were 1050 texts (app. 800 thou. words) in the sample. The first level of analysis was the lexical examination of the texts. The next level focused on the computer assisted content analysis that allowed the author to examine the key elements of journalist messages in subsequent years. In the last stage of analysis the author applied statistical measures using a multidimensional information processing method (the factor analysis). They enabled to extract several factors representing the main areas of press discourse on Poland.

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