Joseph, Neethu, and Francis P. Barclay
ABSTRACT
To compare and contrast political frames used in the reportage of the Kashmir conflict of 2016, six English newspapers—three each published from New Delhi (national) and Jammu and Kashmir (local)—were chosen and a qualitative content analysis was performed on 648 news articles published during July 9-August 8, 2016. A manual analysis was performed to rate the news reports under six popular conflict-based news frames: attribution of responsibility, human interest, conflict, morality, economic and diagnostic/prognostic frame. Study results indicated a statistically-significant difference between national and local newspapers with regard to the usage of the chosen political frames. While the local newspapers mostly preferred human interest angle in coverage of the issue, their national counterparts heavily used the attribution of responsibility frame to editorialise the issue. The study results also indicated a statistically-significant association between place from where the newspapers were published and tone accorded to the reportage. Attribution of responsibility was the most popular frame used to cover this conflict.
REFERENCE
Joseph, Neethu, and Francis P. Barclay. (2018). Media Framing: A Comparative Newspaper Analysis of Kashmir Conflict 2016. Journal of Media and Communication, 2(2):01-24. CUTN
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