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Publication details [#63503]
Riaz, Saqib. 2017. Coverage of The United States-Pakistan Relations in American Newspapers. African and Asian Studies 16 (3) : 189–214.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Brill
Annotation
Relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have an important influence on the world’s politics as well as in molding the future of the globe. However, the relations between the two countries have experienced a lot of ups and downs during the last seven decades. Media have a central role in framing and molding this ‘love and hate’ relationship. This inquiry explored the coverage of the U.S.-Pakistan relations by the American newspapers as the media coverage molds the public opinion. Two main U.S. newspapers were content assayed for one year with the help of Lexis and Nexis and the coverage of Pakistan was measured and assayed qualitatively as well as quantitatively. The results of the inquiry disclosed that the American newspapers depicted a very negative image of Pakistan and most of the coverage about the bilateral relations was found as negative.