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- Title
War Journalism Where There's No War: Critical Discourse Analysis of Russo-Ukraine Conflict in Pakistani Elite National Press.
- Authors
Tarique, Muhammad; Shaheen, Lubna
- Abstract
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan (PMIK) visited Russia in the wake of news coverage of the Russian military escalation against Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022. His and all other diplomatic efforts however failed and the war was started. For conflict resolution mass media boundaries, the wars could be managed (if not avoided) by preemptively mediating through Peace Journalism (PJ) model. Scholars hold that by applying the PJ framework of peace-war discourses in news media, conflicts can be averted from their violent outcomes (Galtung & Ruge, 1965; Shaw et al., 2011; Tarique & Shaheen, 2022), and then manage for peaceful resolution (Hoffmann, 2014). Furthering the mediatization of wars, more methodological fronts were introduced which hold that PJ resulted well by supplementing it with critical discourse analysis (CDA) (Ottosen, 2010; Lynch & McGoldrick 2013; Shaheen & Tarique 2022). Due to the importance of the Russo-Ukraine conflict, the elite Pakistani national press had attracted vast coverage. The research investigates the journalism stances taken by the mainstream Pakistani press before the start of the Russo-Ukraine war. Selection of one month period till the start of the war found that Pakistani national journalism didn't follow the rules of conflict resolution emancipated by the PJ. On the CDA fronts, and in line with the best orientation of the PJ, the research suggested that overall War Journalism (WJ) syntax was ensued with meaningless hyperboles juxtaposed with local and global semantics. The time period was selected to give allowance of the major assumption of PJ theory which advocates preemptive intervention by journalists.
- Subjects
RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022-; WAR in the press; PAKISTANI newspapers; CRITICAL discourse analysis; KHAN, Imran, 1952-
- Publication
Athens Journal of Mass Media & Communications, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 4, p383
- ISSN
2407-9499
- Publication type
Article