• 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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      Table 1: Urban rural problems in Imo State as published by the three newspapers grouped into contents categories
      Table 2: Coverage of urban vis -à-vis rural problems in Imo state by the three newspapers
      Table 3: Content Placement of urban/rural problems in    Imo state by the three newspapers
      Table 4: Content emphasis in terms of story length by the three news papers
      Table 5: Content emphasis in terms of hard news by the th ree news papers
      Table 6: Content emphasis in terms of features by the three news papers
      Table 7: Content emphasis in terms of letters to Editor by the three news papers
      Table 8: Content emphasis in terms of opinions by the three news papers
      Table 9: Content emphasis in terms of pictures by the three news papers

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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTOver    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 th ... Continue reading---

         

      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---

         

      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 Life”.    Paper presented at the workshop organized by MAMSER on Reporting Techniques for MAMSER programm ... Continue reading---