“Playing With Fire” in a Pre-Election Period: Newspaper Coverage of 2007 Wildfires in Greece

摘要: Newspaper coverage of 2007 wildfires in Greece was examined within a pre-election period. Interpretative repertoires are presented that were employed by two newspapers, each aligned to one the leading parliamentary parties at time. Media discourse framed emergency character fire suppression paradigm, while mistreated as unexpected and “unnatural,” namely, not integral Mediterranean ecosystem dynamics. Depiction government focused on dealing with episodes marked newspaper partisanship. This might have obscured responsibility political leadership account for long-term rural socioeconomic trends, such agricultural abandonment depopulation, which added hazard. content interpretative repertoire “asymmetric threat,” launched shape result supposed conspiracy plan and, thereby, overcome blame its failures.