Abstract
The purpose of this research is to find out the percentage of
extensive presence of news content taken from foreign news
wires in English dailies of Pakistan. The study has been
conducted by analyzing international pages of three most
widely read English dailies of Pakistan i.e. Dawn, The News
and The Nation in terms of replication of the content from the
international news wire services. It has been done through
quantitative content analysis and in order to find out the
extensive use of news content and percentage of similarity, a
plagiarism software WCopyfind_2.7 was used. One week
publications of three mostly read English newspapers, during
the month of May, 2015 were taken as a sample. News stories
published on the international pages were only selected. The
results indicated that the stories published on international
pages of three newspapers were almost similar to the original
stories taken from news feed of international news wires, with
very minimal contribution of original content by the most
highly acclaimed newspaper organizations in the country. The
consequences of this overwhelming dependence were the
conveyance of only one sided interpretation of the incident, its
causes and after effects.
Lubna Shaheen. (2014) Over Reliance of Pakistani English Press on Foreign News Wires; a quantitative content analysis of one week coverage of three English dailies of Pakistan, Journal of Media Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1.
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