摘要: This article critically examines The New York Timesphotojournalistic coverage of Rwanda from 1989 through the events 1994. It shows which stories were left out (French/South African arms sales, Belgian colonial heritage, and World Bank/IMF interventions) errors retained (tribalism as causation, dark continent/exoticisation theories). images that media projected to United States public show multiple ways in agency remains unproblematised especially with regard gender stigmatisation. Through these images, rhetorics journalism frame much our understanding global consequently responses them. Finally, this ends by making an argument for using critical social theories engage politicians change.