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A Comparative Study Of Newspaper Coverage Of Rural/urban Problems In Imo State
[A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF DAILY CHAMPION, THE SUN AND VANGUARD NEWSPAPERS] -
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ABSTRACT
Over the years, successive governments in the underdeveloped countries have regrettably adopted a lackadaisical, impractical, apathetic and lip service attitude towards the transformation of their rural communities whose inhabitants constitute in some places more than 70% of their respective populations.
In Nigeria for instance, the situatio n has reached an alarming stage, more so when one considers the outright abandonment of the rural populations to their fate, as manifested in the various indices of under development that prevail across the length and breath of the country, despite the vast human and natural resources it is endowed with.
Granted that some administrations in the past, had one time or another annunciated policies and programme seemingly aimed at rural development but has any of such projects ever been successfully executed in any of such rural communities? The fact remains obvious that such projects only serve as a conduit pipe to siphon funds into private pockets.
Zeroing in on the situation in Imo state which incidentally is the subject of this study, the situation there is quite akin to what obtains elsewhere in the country, as most developmental projects are concentrated in the city, to the exclusion of the rural areas.
It is against the backdrop of the obvious disregard of the rural communities in the scheme of development projects in Imo state that this research work has embarked upon to among others, highlight the role of the media (in the context of newspapers in the coverage of rural and urban problems in Imo state.
The choice of the newspaper in th is enterprise is informed by the fact that the mass media as vehicle for information, agenda setting and mass mobilization, possess a unique potential in reversing this unpleasant status quo
The Daily Champion, The Sun and Vanguard were thus chosen to reflect this in balance in the coverage or rural/urban problems in Imo state.
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APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]APPENDIXCODE CATEGORIES FOR VARIABLES OF INTEREST COLUMN CATEGORY1. Name of Newspaper2. Location3. Month of Publication4. Date of publication5. Number of items6. Items classification7. Form of items8. Nature of item9. PlacementCODING INSTRUCTIONSName of newspapers: Daily Champion = DCVanguard VgDaily Sun DSLocation: DC-Lagos = LAVG-Lagos = LADS -Lagos = LAMonth of publication: FEB - ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLESTable 1: Urban rural problems in Imo State as published by the three newspapers grouped into contents categoriesTable 2: Coverage of urban vis -Ã -vis rural problems in Imo state by the three newspapersTable 3: Content Placement of urban/rural problems in Imo state by the three newspapersTable 4: Content emphasis in terms of story length by the three news papersTable 5: Content emphasis in terms of hard news by the th ree news papersTable 6: Content emphasis in terms of fea ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ] TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page Approval page Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract Table of contents List of tables CHAPTER 1: Introduction Background of the study Statement of the problems Theoretical orientation Objective of the study Significance of the study Research Questions Limitation Delimitation Definitions of Terms CHAPTER 2: Literature Review 2.1 I ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONThis research work is based on two major theories, the development media theory and the Democratic participant media theory. Both theories emerge out of the realization that the original four classical theories viz, the authoritarian, Libertarian, social responsibility and Soviet-communist theories, do not apply strictly to developing countries or where they can be applied, have lim ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]not far from the point when he noted that lack of media resources such as man power, tra nsportation and communication equipment was mainly responsible for low coverage of rural news by newspapers in developing countries such as Nigeria, his findings were a confirmation of that by francis Voelker (1972) in his “Mass Media Forces in our society †as well as that Kimio Uno (1982) in is study on ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY3.1 Research MethodologyAware of the unique characteristic of the study which dwells on the coverage of rural development activities in Imo State by three newspapers viz The Daily Champion, The Sun, and The Vanguard, the researcher adopt content analysis as the most appropriate, efficient and accurate research technique for work.Being a quantitative research tool, content analysis is also a systematic procedure that is applied to determine objectively, what i ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]The above table is an indica tor of the fact that rural matters hardly attract front pages attention of our national dailies as the studies on daily Champion, The Sun and Vanguard exemplify.As studies have shown, government newspapers gives more front pages coverage to rural issues t han private-owned ones. The reason is not far -fetched: they do this furtherance of their egoistic political ambition to portray their administration as grassroots-orientated, even where in reality, nothing is on th ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER FIVESUMMARY CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION5.1 SUMMARYFrom the study, two facts have been established:a. The ownership of a newspaper is a very important and crucial factor in the extent of coverage of rural and urban problems in a developing society. This is reflected in the editorial policy and the attention, though grossly inadequate, which the ownership o f the Daily Champion which gave the largest coverage to urban and rural problems in the study, is from Imo state, speaki ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]BIBLIOGRAPHYBittner, J .R.(1989) Mass Communication, An Introduction . 5th Edition. New J ersey, Prentice Hall Inc.Edeani, O.D (190) “ Impact of Ownership on National newspapers Coverage of a Mass mobilization campaign†in Nigerian Journal of Mass Communication . Enugu, Magnet Enterprises .Gana, J . (1988). “The need for adequate enlightenment in socio - economic Lifeâ€. Paper presented at the workshop organized by MAMSER on Reporting Techniques for MAMSER programm ... Continue reading---
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APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]APPENDIXCODE CATEGORIES FOR VARIABLES OF INTEREST COLUMN CATEGORY1. Name of Newspaper2. Location3. Month of Publication4. Date of publication5. Number of items6. Items classification7. Form of items8. Nature of item9. PlacementCODING INSTRUCTIONSName of newspapers: Daily Champion = DCVanguard VgDaily Sun DSLocation: DC-Lagos = LAVG-Lagos = LADS -Lagos = LAMonth of publication: FEB - ... Continue reading---
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