Robert Entman of George Washington University studied coverage surrounding the incident in U.S. media , comparing it to the similar incident that happened to Korean Air Lines Flight 007 , which was shot down by the Soviet Union five years earlier . Using material from '' Time '' , '' Newsweek '' , '' The New York Times '' , '' The Washington Post '' and '' CBS Evening News '' , the research found clearly evident framing techniques used to demonize and blame the foreign enemy . He stated that by " de-emphasizing the agency and the victims and by the choice of graphics and adjectives , the news stories about the U.S. downing of an Iranian plane called it a technical problem while the Soviet downing of a Korean jet was portrayed as a moral outrage "
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Iran Air Flight 655