Abstract
This research study examines the nature of news items on
aired on three TV channels of Pakistan, while covering the
killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The
three channels include private broadcasters Geo News and
Dunya News, and public broadcaster Pakistan Television
News (PTV News). The content of these TV channels has
been studied for ten consecutive days, starting from May 2,
2011, when Osama bin Laden was killed in the U.S.
operation. The findings, based on the Quantitative Content
Analysis, show that both the public and private broadcasters
of Pakistan relied heavily on the ‘table stories’ to report the
event for its viewers – besides little field strategy for the
media coverage of the issue from the field. The less ‘boots on
the ground’ show that the Pakistani TV channels did not
explore the event in investigative line, and thus relied heavily
on the studio productions
Amir Hamza Marwan, Major Abdul Wadood. (2018) Pakistani TV Channels and their Field Strategy in Covering the Osama bin Laden’s Death , The Dialogue, Volume 13, Issue 3.
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