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Reflection <strong>of</strong> US Policy Towards Pakistan in Pakistani Press 333<br />
Reflection <strong>of</strong> US Policies by Dawn<br />
Figure 1.5: Editorial Figure 1.6: Editorial Note<br />
Figures 1.7 & 1.8 reveal the selected three national English dailies’ published editorials and<br />
editorial notes on the issue <strong>of</strong> US policy toward Pakistan for the whole three months study’s period. It<br />
is evident from the findings that all the three dailies have given more importance to the issue in their<br />
editorials for the month <strong>of</strong> March compared to their editorials published on the selected issue for the<br />
months <strong>of</strong> January and February. Similarly the comparison <strong>of</strong> the selected papers editorial notes on the<br />
issue shows that the leading dailies have given significantly more coverage to the issue by their<br />
editorial notes for month <strong>of</strong> January than their importance in editorial notes given to the same issue for<br />
the months <strong>of</strong> February and March.<br />
Reflection <strong>of</strong> US Policies by the three dailies<br />
Figure 1.7: Editorials Figure 1.8: Editorial notes<br />
Month wise editorials’ comparison <strong>of</strong> the selected dailies shows that all the papers published<br />
more editorials on the issue for the month <strong>of</strong> March compared to their published editorials on the same<br />
issue for the months <strong>of</strong> January and February. While their published editorial notes’ comparison<br />
illustrates that all the dailies published more editorial notes on the issue for the month January than<br />
their editorial notes published for the months <strong>of</strong> February and March on the same issue.<br />
Table 1.1: ‘The Nation’ three months coverage <strong>of</strong> the issue<br />
Months Editorial Space Ed. notes Space<br />
January 00 00 12 1653<br />
February 05 055 06 689<br />
March 03 636 09 1128<br />
N: 09 1691 27 3470<br />
The figures <strong>of</strong> table 1.1 illustrate the number <strong>of</strong> editorials and editorial notes and the space<br />
given to reflection <strong>of</strong> US policies by daily ‘The Nation’ for the period <strong>of</strong> three months The results<br />
show that for the month <strong>of</strong> January the paper published total twelve editorials with the observed space<br />
(1653) given to them, for the month <strong>of</strong> February the paper has published five editorials with space