It also aims to introduce some of competing frames at work – radical Basque nationalist, moderate nationalist, anti-nationalist and Spanish nationalist. The first chapter is a literature review, explaining the background to both the Basque conflict and to the controversy over the summer festivals. Frames here are defined as logical, consistent and coherent schemes that explain and contextualise a story for a reader and which encourage one interpretation over another. The aim of this study is to investigate and identify media “frames” in coverage of the festivals and more broadly of the Basque conflict in general. The festivals were controversial as the President of the region, for the first time since 1980, not a Basque nationalist, forbade the display of any symbols, posters, banners or marches that could be deemed to give support to the armed separatist group ETA. ![]() This is a study of the media coverage of the contested events of the annual summer festivals in the three provincial capitals of the Basque Autonomous Community in northern Spain in the summer of 2009.
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