The purpose of the present studay is to examine how newspaper covered the minority movement in Taiwan. The target case is the aboriginal Land Movement. Totally 168 news articles were collected for analysis. Both quantitative content analysis and qualitative text analysis were employed.
The results show that newspapers were more likely to report single, dramatic events, to focus on action, and to cover novel events. Other concerns－the racial, social and historical context which influrnced events were neglected. Several news frames were found in the news:
trivialization, factionalization of the movement, externalization,and omission. However, newspapers paid more and more attention to the movement and did more in-depth analyses on the problems as the movement reached the third phase.
The study also fond over fifty percent news sources were from the movement leaders and aboriginal legistators, while only one fifth news sources were from the authofrity.