Open AccessEvaluating the Influence of Policy Certainty and Violence on Coverage of Policy Issues in Pakistani Media
Author(s) -
Jamal Ud Din,
Shabir Hussain
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-i01-32
Subject(s) - newspaper , government (linguistics) , context (archaeology) , certainty , media coverage , foreign policy , political science , content analysis , public relations , advertising , sociology , politics , media studies , business , law , social science , geography , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , epistemology
This article examines the government and press relationship in the context of foreign policyrelated issues in Pakistan, where the nature of [policy]issues are subjected to frequentchanges. The content analysis of three selected issues reflects the existence of softrelationship between media and government in the [violent]issue of Kashmir and Salalacheck post attack while the policy uncertainty in the issue to join the Saudi Arab led militarycoalition, instead of soft relations, triggered, comparatively more critical coverage in theselected newspapers- Dawn and The News.