Framing of Top Poilitical Leadership in Leading Newspapers of Pakistan

Abstract

This study is based on a research about newspapers to show how newspapers frame news about two top political leaders Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan. It's important to comprehend how the print media is reporting news about political leaders since news media play an important role in modern world. In the light of framing theory two leading newspapers of Pakistan were selected. The Dawn and Daily Jang: The front pages of these papers for six months were selected from 1-01-2018 to 30-06-2018 to measure the Slant.frequency, thematic and eventalframes. Content analysis of front page of the newspapers was done which include Headlines. Altogether 668 headlines were read from Daily Jang and 109 headlines from Dawn. The researcher found 400 and 82 relevant headlines respectively. Result of the study elaborates that Jang newspaper publish larger number of news and it mostly sensationalize the news whereas, the dawn remained neutral most of the time in language while the approach of the news remained subjective.