Communicating health: media framing of ebola outbreak in Nigerian newspapers
Mass media cannot cure virus but can cure its spread. Framing of news stories in the Nigerian media (newspapers) is much more influenced by the economic motive of the journalists; picking news angle that arouses readers’ interests in order to sell more copies in the keen competitive media market....
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ukm-105102017-07-10T02:05:48Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10510/ Communicating health: media framing of ebola outbreak in Nigerian newspapers Adekunle, Adelakun Lateef Hamedi M. Adnan, Mass media cannot cure virus but can cure its spread. Framing of news stories in the Nigerian media (newspapers) is much more influenced by the economic motive of the journalists; picking news angle that arouses readers’ interests in order to sell more copies in the keen competitive media market. The 2014 Ebola outbreak is a litmus test of how Nigerian media framed health issues, which depict the news perspective most interest to them. Through content analysis of two daily newspapers reports of Ebola during the outbreak in Nigeria, this study established the framing patterns employed while reporting as well as the preponderant frames used. The outcome is used to justify the priority upheld between the competing newspapers interests to sell and the media social responsibility towards containing the outbreak. The much capitalisation on treatment/containment frame portrayed the newspapers purposive interest to free the society of the outbreak, a reflection of its social responsibility role. The priority, which pose no threat on the professionalism of journalism was not only much appraised but also recommended for all media involvement in crisis reports. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10510/1/16486-46316-1-SM.pdf Adekunle, Adelakun Lateef and Hamedi M. Adnan, (2016) Communicating health: media framing of ebola outbreak in Nigerian newspapers. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 32 (2). pp. 362-380. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/877 |
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Mass media cannot cure virus but can cure its spread. Framing of news stories in the Nigerian
media (newspapers) is much more influenced by the economic motive of the journalists;
picking news angle that arouses readers’ interests in order to sell more copies in the keen
competitive media market. The 2014 Ebola outbreak is a litmus test of how Nigerian media
framed health issues, which depict the news perspective most interest to them. Through
content analysis of two daily newspapers reports of Ebola during the outbreak in Nigeria, this
study established the framing patterns employed while reporting as well as the preponderant
frames used. The outcome is used to justify the priority upheld between the competing
newspapers interests to sell and the media social responsibility towards containing the
outbreak. The much capitalisation on treatment/containment frame portrayed the newspapers
purposive interest to free the society of the outbreak, a reflection of its social responsibility
role. The priority, which pose no threat on the professionalism of journalism was not only
much appraised but also recommended for all media involvement in crisis reports. |
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Adekunle, Adelakun Lateef Hamedi M. Adnan, |
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Adekunle, Adelakun Lateef Hamedi M. Adnan, Communicating health: media framing of ebola outbreak in Nigerian newspapers |
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Adekunle, Adelakun Lateef Hamedi M. Adnan, |
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Communicating health: media framing of ebola
outbreak in Nigerian newspapers |
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Communicating health: media framing of ebola
outbreak in Nigerian newspapers |
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Communicating health: media framing of ebola
outbreak in Nigerian newspapers |
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Communicating health: media framing of ebola
outbreak in Nigerian newspapers |
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Communicating health: media framing of ebola
outbreak in Nigerian newspapers |
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communicating health: media framing of ebola
outbreak in nigerian newspapers |
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
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2016 |
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