The Portrayal of the United States in the Context of Drone Attacks: A Study of Pakistani Print Media

Sumera Khalid, Muhammad Ahsan Bhatti and Tahir Mahmood

Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2020, vol. 6, issue 2, 519-528

Abstract: The drone attacks from the United States on the tribal areas of Pakistan were in the spotlight Pakistani media since 2004. These attacks also remained as the debating issue that they have taken lives of incident people along with the terrorists. The present study is an exploratory study about the image of the United States in context to drone attacks. To do so, drawing on framing theory editorials from leading newspapers were analyzed by using the qualitative content analysis method. The study also compared the editorial coverage of two newspapers regarding the image of the United States have been treated in editorials related to the drone attacks. The findings revealed that daily Jang is more inclined to positively present the image of the United States than Nawa-i-waqt. The study also revealed that daily Nawa-i-waqt published editorials on drone attacks more frequently than the daily Jang

Date: 2020
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