Abstract
This study analyzed three leading international news magazines The Economist,
The Herald and Time treatment on American armed operations in Afghanistan
through the prism of the Galtung war/peace journalism indicators. The
researchers studied qualitatively and quantitatively 347 news items of the abovementioned newsmagazines. One way Anova and chi-square were used to find out
the relationship between the study’s variables. The findings indicated that The
Economist and Time used regularly the frame of war reporting whereas peace
journalism frame was frequently used in The Herald. There was an indispensable
contrast in the treatment of The Economist, The Herald and Time about American
armed operation in Afghanistan. The Economist as well as Time planted partisan
and legitimated U.S. military operations as the most appropriate solutions to
punish Osama Bin Laden for being the mastermind of 9/11 incident and to crack
down Taliban regime in Afghanistan which was the main source of Al-Qaida
network. Whereas The Herald embraced the peace reporting outlines and
frequently conceded the voice to the unvoiced casualties by highlighting the
nonmilitary personnel losses, coincidental losses and agonies of the casualties of
U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
Nasim Ishaq, Noshina Saleem, Hanan Ahamd, Salma Amber. (2017) COVERING U.S. LED INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TREATMENT OF THE ECONOMIST, TIME AND THE HERALD, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 54, Issue 2.
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