Abstract
Armed conflicts have always attracted the attention of the media. Over the decades, the desirability of media coverage, along with the instruments, has evolved. Media coverage of the Russian aggression against Ukraine in the early months set the agenda of most of the world's media, constituting the central point of the media discourse. After a year of war, there is a clear “fatigue” with information about the conflict, which translates into a decrease in media coverage in the evening news services of the Polish media. During an armed conflict, the media perform not only basic autotelic functions, but also play the role of bridge builders or an early warning system. Despite a clear decline in trust in traditional media, in times of crisis, they are mostly the first source of information. This chapter tries a synthetic analysis of the specificity of media coverage of the war in Ukraine from the perspective of Poland—as a frontline state strongly involved in helping Ukraine.
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Kasińska-Metryka, A., Pałka-Suchojad, K. (2023). Old Front Lines of New Wars. The Role of the Media as a Carrier of Information About the War in Ukraine. In: Turska-Kawa, A., Kasińska-Metryka, A., Pałka-Suchojad, K. (eds) War in Ukraine. Media and Emotions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37608-5_2
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