Visual Coverage of War on Terror in Pakistani English Newspapers

Abstract

According to peace scholar Johan Gultung war journalism frame highlights the differences between
the conflict parties and promotes violence as a tool to conflict resolution while in his views peace
journalism frames highlight the peace as a first step in its coverage and bring down differences
between the war parties to resolve the conflict. Therefore, on the classification of peace scholar of
these two competing frames, this study tried to investigate the news photographs of the war
quantitatively (2014-2015), of ongoing war on terror in Pakistan using war photographs. The
current study examined that to which extent the news photographs of war are framed in war versus
peace journalism in the two leading dailies of Pakistan Dawn (English) and Jung (Urdu). Findings of
this study also indicated that both the newspapers provided war photographs in different
assortments while covering the conflict in the country which proves that photograph selection in
terms of war versus peace journalism had a very concrete touch on public opinion influencing the
perception of news.