A Comparative Analysis Of The Coverage Of Ghana And Nigeria In The Punch And Daily Graphic Newspapers
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2022-09
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University Of Ghana
Abstract
Researchers have been examining the importance and scope of international communication since communication technologies permitted messages to cross national borders. This style of forming minds to appreciate issues positively or negatively has been known as framing in media circles. "The Hopeless Continent," represented what many view to be a disproportionate amount of negative coverage of Africa (Ikon, 2016). Literature is therefore limited on the framing of Ghana by Nigeria and vice versa generally as well as on issues of diplomacy, child abuse and immigration in the print media. Thus, the extent to which the print media in both countries frame these topics as it relates to both countries is the focus of this study. Using content analysis, the study’s objectives was to examine how Nigerian and Ghanaian media cover issues of child abuse, how diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Ghana are framed by the media of both countries and find out how the Ghanaian and Nigerian media frame issues of immigration. Findings from the study revealed that news reports in both countries were framed negatively making each country look bad in the eyes of each other’s citizens, which confirms the negative stereotypes found by Serwornoo (2021) in his study on the negative representation of Africa in the Western media. This study therefore recommends among other things, that future studies should aim at investigating the coverage of both nations through other forms of media by generating data from various sources such as radio, television and the internet to widen the scope of findings.
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M.A. Communication Studies
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Ghana, Nigeria, The Punch, Daily Graphic Newspapers, Comparative Analysis