Framing of Panama Leaks: A Content Analysis of Pakistani and Western Press

Samira Saleem and Syed Abdul Siraj
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Samira Saleem: PhD Scholar, Department of Mass Communication,Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Syed Abdul Siraj: Professor,Head Media Studies, Department of Media Studies, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Global Regional Review, 2019, vol. 4, issue 2, 412-420

Abstract: This study investigated the emergence of different factors in the framing of Panama leaks by gathering data along with five thematic frames of financial, morality, blame-game, political victimization, and accountability. Altogether 930 news stories were content analyzed to investigate how the issue of Panama leaks was framed in the media since its inception in April 2016. Furthermore, 22 framing items were selected to measure these frames and a principal component analysis resulted in generating a factor solution by clustering of these framing items into eight distinguishable factors of political-econo, governance, justificationssolutions, socio-political responsibility, implications, apathy, responsiveness, and economic instability. This study revealed differences in the use of these factors both in different newspapers and topics of coverage. The Pakistani press used the factor of governance more whereas the western press used the factor of political-econo more as compared to other factors in the framing of Panama leaks.

Keywords: Factors; Governance; Pakistani; Panama Leaks; Political-economy; Western Press (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).44

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