This article examines how the attention which media scholarship gives to only the<br />quantitative research method impacts on journalism practice in Nigeria. Firstly, typical<br />mass media texts were purposively selected and presented on a titled table. Secondly<br />Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methods were used to analyse selected texts. Thirdly<br />e-mailing and audio recording were used to elicit comments from a reporter and an<br />editor. The editor and the reporter who commented wrote the stories from which the<br />selected newspaper texts were drawn. Lastly, elicited comments were used to buttress<br />arguments as the analysis progressed. In Nigeria journalists report news without<br />imputation. Reporting news without imputations flaws news presentation. In this article<br />flaws in news presentation are attributed to the attention which media scholarship in<br />Nigeria gives to only the quantitative research method. The article proposes that as the<br />qualitative research method, more so than the quantitative method, imparts better critical<br />skills to journalists, the qualitative method should be emphasised more in mass media<br />research
As a country with a remarkable crude oil deposit, it is a dark irony that Nigeria depends on importation for its petroleum product needs. The devastating impact on Nigeria’s economy of this dependence continues to provoke polemics. Recently, the polemics dominated the text of Nigeria’s leading national newspapers. We see in the texts, manifest and latent ideological status quo thinking about the variant of science Nigerians believe might launch Nigeria into a sustainable competence in petroleum products affordability. Since latent ideological text meanings elude the competence of lay readers, we sampled as data, newspaper texts containing manifest and latent views expressed by Nigerians regarding the version of science of crude oil refining they believe Nigeria needs to enable it to exit its dependence on importation for its petroleum product needs. Leveraging our critical discourse analysis of these diversely sourced data, we raised and answered questions, such as whether the concern expressed by powerful Nigerians against indigenous crude oil refiners results from the patriotic disposition of the powerful or whether their concern is a pushback against anything with a potential to break the monopoly and the illicit gains that accrue from oil subsidy policy that enriches only those at the corridors of power. Our analysis also forayed into why Nigeria’s journalists and Nigeria’s political class see nightmare instead of dreams in the commitment of indigenous crude oil refiners to indigenize the production of petroleum products in Nigeria.
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