Shooting War or Peace: The analysis of Photographs in Selected Newspapers of Pakistan
Sami Ullah
ASK Development, Islamabad
Wajahat Rahman
Flair International, Islamabad
Syed Inam ur Rehman
International Islamic University Islamabad
Abstract
According to peace scholar Johan Gultung war journalism frame is one which highlights the differences between the conflict parties and promotes violence as a tool to conflict resolution while in his views peace journalism frames are those which highlights the peace as a first step in its coverage and bring down differences between the war parties to resolve the conflict. Therefore, on the classification of peace scholar of these two competing frames, this study will be the first quantitative analysis of news photographs (2014-2015) of the ongoing war on terror in Pakistan. using war photographs this study examined that to which extent the news photographs of war are framed in the war versus peace journalism in the two leading dailies of Pakistan Dawn (English) and Jung (Urdu). Findings of this study also indicated that both the newspapers provided war photographs in different assortments while covering the conflict in the country which proves that photographs selection in terms of war versus peace journalism had very concrete touch on public opinion influencing the perception of news.
