Good and Bad Frames in the News Coverage of the Pakistan English Newspaper in the Regime of Pakistan Peoples Party from 2008 to 2013

Salman Amin, Ghulam Shabir and Saqib Riaz

Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2020, vol. 6, issue 2, 357-365

Abstract: The study examined the coverage of general issues and to find out the performance of Pakistan Peoples Party from 2008 to 2013; through English Pakistani newspaper. The aim of this study to investigate the coverage of general issues that how the newspapers framed these issues in a "Good" and "Bad" frame. Furthermore, these frames were showing the credibility of the government. The quantitative content analysis method was used and, the population, all news stories related to general issues, published in selected newspapers, last five years in a selected Regime from 2008 to 2013 in Pakistan. The systematic Random sampling method was deemed appropriate and employed for this study. The finding of this study shows that The PPP government completed its five years term, in that tenure bad governance was in peak. Due to bad governance, poverty was on peak, and the worst model was adobe to control law and order situation, corruption was on peak, all type of terrorism practically active and had no proper plan to fulfil basic needs of the general public. There were waves of political unrest ahead of the 2008 and 2013 general election. The unfortunate incident happened in December 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister and chair of the PPP, and there were several attacks in KP and FATA targeting leftist politicians and political rallies in the weeks preceding the 2008 general election.

Keywords: General issues; political regime; newspapers; content analysis; democratic; socioeconomic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.26710/jafee.v6i2.1169

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