A comparative content analytical study of negative news in western and third world newspapers

Chaudhary, Anju Grover

doi:10.1080/01292980109364791

Cited by 16 publications

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“…In this study, there are four parameters adopted to empirically evaluate the concept. First, like Bunce (2017), Chaudhary (2001) and Moeller (1999), stories that focused exclusively on events that naturally are negative, such as famine, disease, wars, poverty and killings were coded negative. Second, when the tone of the reportage of an event or policy style is negatively evaluated on the whole, ignoring positive aspects that are equally crucial.…”

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The coverage of Africa in Ghanaian newspapers: The dominant Western voice in the continent’s coverage

Serwornoo

2019

Journalism

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A growing literature has emerged that is contesting the validity of Africa’s negative Western media representation as a myth and empirically non-existent. This article examines how four national newspapers in Ghana reported the continent. About 13,228 corpus belonging to these top four national newspapers, over a period of 2 years, were quantitatively examined for sources utilised. Based on a 2-week constructed sampling technique, 180 articles reporting Africa were further analysed for the subjects and tone of the coverage, and the dominant themes of representation. The ethnographic content analysis revealed that the coverage of the continent in these newspapers is dominated by themes of war, crime, killings, crises, terrorism and omission of progress. The African story was mostly narrated through the subject of politics and with a predominantly negative tone. I argue that the continent’s negative proxy self-coverage confirms the evasive spread of Afro-pessimism considering that Western global news organisations accounted for over 80 per cent of the reportage as sources.

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The coverage of Africa in Ghanaian newspapers: The dominant Western voice in the continent’s coverage

Serwornoo

2019

Journalism

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“…In this book, I adopt four parameters in order to evaluate it. The first parameter -in accordance with Bunce (2017), Anju Chaudhary (2001) and Susan Moeller (1999) -is subject matter: stories that focus exclusively on events that are negative in nature, such as famine, disease, wars, poverty and killings. The second parameter is the tone of the reportage, that is, when an event or policy is negatively evaluated on the whole, whilst ignoring positive aspects that are also crucial to the discussion.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Serwornoo

2021

The Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press

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“…Neutral foreign news was defined as stories that "involved both positive and negative in an equal measure or neither positive nor negative" (p. 34). Beyond Chaudhary (2001), three other conceptualisations of negative stories or Afro-pessimism were adopted for the content analysis. These included the tone of the analysis, omissions or silence on improvements and the negation of positive stories with negative contextual background information.…”

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confidence: 99%