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Wildfires fuelled by a severe heatwave tore through southern Spain's Andalusia region, killing at least twelve people and leaving around twenty-three missing, one of the country's deadliest blazes in twenty years.
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Italie: Rome is gauging the Andalusian tragedy in light of its own heatwave, while confirming that no Italian nationals are among the… — États-Unis: The United States is closely watching the Andalusian wildfire as the deadliest manifestation of a climate risk now deemed…
Here are the main framing differences identified between media coverages.
ANALYSIS BY COUNTRY
ITALYDOMINANT ANGLE
Rome is gauging the Andalusian tragedy in light of its own heatwave, while confirming that no Italian nationals are among the reported victims at this stage.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •Italy's foreign ministry reports a provisional toll of 12 dead, 8 injured including 4 in serious condition, around 23 missing and 1,400 evacuated to Los Gallardos and Bedar in the province of Almería, according to ANSA
- •The fire, which started from a fallen power cable on the N-340A road, spread over a 15 km front in under two hours amid gusts of over 50 km/h, as noted by Juanma Moreno
- •The Italian government has not reported any Italian victims among those affected, who are mostly foreign nationals, including four Britons
BIASES
Security-consular framing: strong attention is focused on the absence of confirmed Italian casualties through the Farnesina, rather than the overall Spanish human tollPreference for domestic parallelism: the Val d'Ossola fires and Italian heatwave are used to resituate the event in a national contextLow coverage of structural causes: little space is given to Spanish prevention policies or forest management prior to the disaster
UNITED STATESDOMINANT ANGLE
The United States is closely watching the Andalusian wildfire as the deadliest manifestation of a climate risk now deemed continental in Europe.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •The United States is witnessing devastating wildfires, with at least 12 deaths and 23 missing in the Almeria fire, which has burned over 3,200 hectares of land, as reported by NPR and ABC News.
- •In the US, a dried-up riverbed has become a "deadly trap" for a group of fleeing victims, according to Antonio Sanz, as covered by HuffPost.
- •Americans are drawing connections between the event and the rapid warming of the European continent, which is heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to data from Copernicus, as noted by ABC News.
BIASES
The United States frames the wildfire as part of a broader continental warming trend, rather than focusing solely on local circumstances, in its climate-centric coverageAmerican outlets show a preference for wire reports, often relying on agency dispatches, such as Reuters via HuffPost or ABC News wire, with little original analysis produced directly from SpainThe US government's diplomatic tensions with Spain, including the trade dispute during the Trump administration, receive limited coverage in relation to the wildfire, with the context of the disagreement often not being connected to the disaster coverage
ITALYDOMINANT ANGLE
Rome is gauging the Andalusian tragedy in light of its own heatwave, while confirming that no Italian nationals are among the reported victims at this stage.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •Italy's foreign ministry reports a provisional toll of 12 dead, 8 injured including 4 in serious condition, around 23 missing and 1,400 evacuated to Los Gallardos and Bedar in the province of Almería, according to ANSA
- •The fire, which started from a fallen power cable on the N-340A road, spread over a 15 km front in under two hours amid gusts of over 50 km/h, as noted by Juanma Moreno
- •The Italian government has not reported any Italian victims among those affected, who are mostly foreign nationals, including four Britons
BIASES
Security-consular framing: strong attention is focused on the absence of confirmed Italian casualties through the Farnesina, rather than the overall Spanish human tollPreference for domestic parallelism: the Val d'Ossola fires and Italian heatwave are used to resituate the event in a national contextLow coverage of structural causes: little space is given to Spanish prevention policies or forest management prior to the disaster
UNITED STATESDOMINANT ANGLE
The United States is closely watching the Andalusian wildfire as the deadliest manifestation of a climate risk now deemed continental in Europe.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •The United States is witnessing devastating wildfires, with at least 12 deaths and 23 missing in the Almeria fire, which has burned over 3,200 hectares of land, as reported by NPR and ABC News.
- •In the US, a dried-up riverbed has become a "deadly trap" for a group of fleeing victims, according to Antonio Sanz, as covered by HuffPost.
- •Americans are drawing connections between the event and the rapid warming of the European continent, which is heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to data from Copernicus, as noted by ABC News.
BIASES
The United States frames the wildfire as part of a broader continental warming trend, rather than focusing solely on local circumstances, in its climate-centric coverageAmerican outlets show a preference for wire reports, often relying on agency dispatches, such as Reuters via HuffPost or ABC News wire, with little original analysis produced directly from SpainThe US government's diplomatic tensions with Spain, including the trade dispute during the Trump administration, receive limited coverage in relation to the wildfire, with the context of the disagreement often not being connected to the disaster coverage