POLITICAL NEWS REPORTING IN ETHIOPIA: COMPARATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF STATE AND PRIVATELY- OWNED AMHARIC NEWSPAPERS

BANCHAYEHU, AYANA

dc.contributor.author	BANCHAYEHU, AYANA
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-17T09:38:45Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-17T09:38:45Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9948
dc.description.abstract	This study has been conducted to investigate the political news reporting of Adiss Zemen (government owned) and reporter (the privately owned newspaper), before and after the reform. Quantitative content analysis was used to count frame, themes, sources, tones, the representation of opposition parties by the newspapers and newspapers reporting on the relationship between ethnic based and unionist politics. The coded data were analyzed and interpreted with relevant theoretical frameworks such as the political economy of the mass media, media ownership theory and framing theory. The result of the finding assured that Adiss Zemen political news reporting was significantly changed following the new reform. Prior to the reform its major frame was law and order but after the reform solution frame dominated much of its framing. Government and party issue was by far the principal theme of the newspaper; however, after the reform its theme automatically converted to democracy. Before the reform Adiss Zemen represented opposition parties as enemies, but after the reform it made them partners. Previously, Adiss Zemen set ethnic politics and unionist against each other but after the reform its observation on the relationship between ethnic based politics and the unionist was not against. In two of the most critical coding categories, tone and source of the news, Adiss Zemen was the same before and after the reform. This certifies the fact that the newspaper has not get out of being the propaganda machine of the government. After the reform reporters political news reporting has basically continued in the same pace as it had been before. Both before and after, it dominantly employed solution framing, made democracy as its principal theme, showed neutral tone for the incumbent government and its representation of the opposition parties was as a partner. Though there was change in source usage, it was not significant. In general, it can be said that though there seen some change in Adiss Zemen following the reform, the changes are only government officials driven	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION	en_US
dc.title	POLITICAL NEWS REPORTING IN ETHIOPIA: COMPARATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF STATE AND PRIVATELY- OWNED AMHARIC NEWSPAPERS	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US