Image of the world through the eyes of five Nigerian newspapers

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Description:

This paper questions the popular view that Western media negate the image of the Third World through unprofessionally acquired reports that concentrate on negative activities while ignoring the positive ones. The paper claims that there is no empirical validation of the view that there is an imbalance in news coverage between the West and the Third World. By content-analysing a sample of Nigerian papers, the author arrives at the conclusion that these papers not only do not have a better balance than the Western ones in reporting world news, but they do not even give more prominence to Third World news.

Date Issued:

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Africa Media Review

Place:

Nigeria and Nigeria

Subject Topic:

Foreign news, Reporters and reporting, Newspapers, and Objectivity

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5bc3v789