Open AccessComparative Analysis of Cartoon Communication on Panama Leaks in Elite Pakistani Press
Author(s) -
Muhammad Haseeb Sarwar,
Muhammad Husnain,
Muhammad Sabir
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of peace, development and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7901
pISSN - 2663-7898
DOI - 10.36968/jpdc-v05-i01-29
Subject(s) - elite , newspaper , language change , panama , political science , advertising , politics , history , geography , law , art , literature , business , ecology , biology
Panama leaks were 11.5 million internal documents publicly presented by ICIJ against thecorrupt officials, in which the then sitting prime minister of Pakistan was also involved. Inthis paper, we collected dataset of cartoons on panama leaks published in two Englishnewspapers Daily Dawn and Daily Nation, from April 2016 to July 2017 based upon fourcategories: 1) change in Pakistani politics, 2) Effect on economy, 3) corruption in elite class,and 4) impacts on international relations. To get more insights from panama visuals wecategorized our data into favorable, unfavorable and neutral cartoons. Based upon thesecategories, five different research hypotheses are built and z-test is conducted. Our resultsshow that Daily Dawn published 68% national and 32% international cartoons, while DailyNation printed 72% national and 28% international cartoons. Our study concludes that Dailydawn published 24% favorable, 59% unfavorable and 17% neutral cartoons while DailyNation issued 31% favorable, 59% unfavorable and 10% neutral cartoons.