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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.