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%T Minimalist storytelling: the natural framing of electoral violence by Mexican media %A Schedler, Andreas %J Journal of Politics in Latin America %N 3 %P 239-263 %V 14 %D 2022 %K Drogenhandel; Gewalttätigkeit; Gewaltverbrechen; Organisiertes Verbrechen; Politisch motivierte Gewaltanwendung; Wahl; Wahldelikt; Wahlfälschungen/Wahlbetrug; Abstimmungsverhalten %@ 1868-4890 %~ GIGA %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1866802X221124032 %X During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Mexico's so-called drug war claimed around a quarter of a million lives. Adapting to this enduring epidemic of violence, the print media have adopted a minimalist reporting style that gives only thin, formulaic accounts of violent events. As I argue, established journalistic minimalism does more than provide little information about violence. With practised impassiveness, it frames violence in a way that creates a certain narrative: not of social actors to be understood but of natural events to be endured. Through a qualitative content analysis of over 1200 news reports, I examine the persistent force of this "natural" frame in the face of an extraordinary development: the unprecedented intrusion of political violence into the 2018 general elections, when forty-eight candidates were assassinated. %C GBR %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info