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Comparative Analysis of Pictorial Coverage of Events by Pakistan’s English Press 753
the pictures on the regional development issues compared to the spaces given to international, national,
and provincial developmental issues (table 1.2) The review of the results further shows that pictures on
international economics affairs are given highly significant space (7042cm) than the observed spaces
given to the pictures on national, provincial, and regional economic events. Little but not significant
difference is observed between the space given to education events. Picture on regional educational
matters are given little more space compared to the space devoted to international, national, and
provincial education matters. The review of the space given to festival matters reveals somewhat
difference. Pictures on the national festival events are given little more space (1819cm) than the space
(1155cm) given to international festival events.
Table 1.2: Pictorial coverage by ‘The Nation’ for selected time period
International National Provincial Regional
Categories
# of photos
Space
in cm
# of photos Space
in cm
# of photos
Space
in cm
# of Photos Space
In cm
Politics 91 5259 28 1598 13 1771 21 1553
Developmental Affairs 8 1375 8 777 0 0 39 5198
Economics 42 7042 15 963 1 103 15 615
Education 6 590 11 319 5 442 10 981
Festival 9 1155 12 1819 0 0 1 59
Technology 32 3444 1 60 0 0 0 0
Environment 1 14 0 0 0 0 7 924
Disaster 1 226 1 192 0 0 0 0
Accident 2 280 0 0 0 0 2 195
Nature 14 636 10 2566 0 0 3 355
Crime 11 852 3 274 0 0 10 1579
Showbiz 99 7985 21 1857 0 0 0 0
Health 6 227 4 487 0 0 3 144
Weather 4 166 1 166 0 0 3 782
Demonstration 16 3302 14 2011 0 0 21 2917
War Events 25 3570 30 2928 9 695 50 6667
Sports 124 19092 46 4940 0 0 15 564
Others 16 1213 5 972 0 0 6 883
Total e 518 58131 210 21934 28 3012 206 23421
The results further show highly significant difference between the number of pictures and space
given to the events of technology. The paper has devoted very significant space (3444cm) to
international technological events than its space (60cm) given to national technological events. The
study’ findings don’t reveal significant difference between the paper’s number of pictures and space
spared to the events of environment, disaster, crime, health, accident, and weather. While, a big
difference is observed between the paper number of pictures and space spared to the events of nature.
Highly significant space (2566cm) is given to the pictures published on national events of nature than
the space (636cm) devoted to the nature events of international importance.
The results shown by table 1.2 further show significant differences between the number of
pictures and space devoted by the same paper to the events of showbiz, demonstration, war against
terrorism, and sports. The paper has given high significant space to the pictures of the events of
international showbiz (7985cm), demonstration (3302cm), war against terrorism (3570cm), and sports
(19092cm) than the space devoted to the same set of events of national level. However, the observed
findings reveal that the paper has spared high significant space (6667cm) to the pictures on war against
terrorism events of regional importance compared to the space given to the war events of national and
international importance.