Framing the First Palestinian General Elections by Malaysia’s New Straits Times
The main focus of this study is the coverage of New Straits Times (NST) of the first Palestinian General Elections for two presidential candidates namely, Yasser Arafat and Samiha Khalil. This study aimed to explore if any of Entman’s 1993 framing functions was used in the coverage of this issue...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2019
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| Summary: | The main focus of this study is the coverage of New Straits Times (NST) of the first Palestinian
General Elections for two presidential candidates namely, Yasser Arafat and Samiha Khalil. This study
aimed to explore if any of Entman’s 1993 framing functions was used in the coverage of this issue
and to explore whether the tone of NST coverage was negative, positive, balanced or neutral. To
achieve the aims of this study, qualitative content analysis of elections stories from NST has been
adopted. The number of news stories was eight, and the time frame started from 19th January to
13th February 1996, where three of these stories were published on the same day of 22nd January,
two days after holding the elections on 20th January. Defining problems and diagnosing causes were
the most prominent of Entman’s four framing functions presented in all the articles. The moral
judgment function was included in four news stories, and suggesting remedies was included in two
news stories out of eight. The findings revealed that Yasser Arafat received 50% balanced coverage,
followed by 37.5% positive coverage, and only 12.5% negative coverage, while Samiha Khalil
received 67% balanced coverage, compared to 33% positive coverage. |
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