Media representations and 'othering' of the U.N. in U.S. media in times of conflict post 9/11

This study seeks to address the U.S. media representational politics in the continued discursive production of the U.S. state in post 9/11 global conflict situations. The conflict-time representations of the United Nations in the The New York Times post 9/11 are analyzed as a case in point to reveal how the discursive process of "othering" of the U.N. constructs the United States as a positive global political state. The study reveals how the predominantly negative representations of the U.N. and its member nations and positive representations of the United States in the U.S. media during times of conflict post 9/11 discursively favors U.S. ideologies and perpetuates U.S. values. The media discourses essentialize the U.N. to a few negative qualities and then naturalize those qualities through hegemonic discursive struggle that enacts the discursive power of the U.S. media. The U.S. media's discursive tilt towards U.S. ideologies continue to produce the U.S. state and naturalize U.S. dominance and conflict-time global power politics while simultaneously delegitimizing the systems and processes of the United Nations.