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Comparative Analysis <strong>of</strong> Pictorial Coverage <strong>of</strong> Events by Pakistan’s English Press 755<br />

Figure 1.4: Picture coverage by Dawn<br />

20<br />

115<br />

241<br />

298<br />

International<br />

National<br />

Provincial<br />

The empirical findings regarding both the dailies space coverage given to pictures published on<br />

the events for the whole three months period show that both the newspapers have spared significant<br />

space to the events <strong>of</strong> international importance than the events <strong>of</strong> national, provincial, and regional<br />

importance (figures 1.5 & 1.6). However, daily the ‘Dawn’ has given significantly more space to<br />

events <strong>of</strong> national level compared to the space given by daily ‘The Nation’ to the same events for same<br />

period.<br />

Regional<br />

Figure 1.5: Space coverage by The Nation<br />

Regional<br />

21%<br />

Province<br />

3%<br />

National<br />

27%<br />

Internati<br />

onal<br />

49%<br />

Figure 1.6: Space coverage by Dawn<br />

Regional<br />

21%<br />

Province<br />

3%<br />

National<br />

35%<br />

Internati<br />

onal<br />

41%<br />

Results <strong>of</strong> the study shown by table 1.3 illustrate the comparison <strong>of</strong> number <strong>of</strong> pictures and<br />

space given to the selected categories by both the papers for the whole stipulated period. As it is<br />

evident from the findings that daily ‘Dawn’ has significantly published more pictures and also spared<br />

significant space to developmental affairs, education, festival, disaster, accident, and crimes events <strong>of</strong><br />

international, national, provincial, and regional importance compared to the number <strong>of</strong> pictures and<br />

space given by daily ‘The Nation’ to the same events for the same period. Conversely daily ‘The<br />

Nation’ published significantly more pictures and also given more space to the issues <strong>of</strong> politics,<br />

economics, technology, showbiz, health, war against terrorism, and sports <strong>of</strong> international, national,<br />

provincial, and regional importance. The results show no significant difference between both the<br />

papers’ coverage given to the events <strong>of</strong> environment, nature, weather, and others. In the light <strong>of</strong> the<br />

above findings it can be concluded that ‘The Nation’ has not published more pictures but also spared<br />

significant space to the listed set <strong>of</strong> issues compared to number <strong>of</strong> pictures and space devoted by<br />

‘Dawn’ to the same events for the whole stipulated period.

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