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    The Polarization of State Owned and Private Media in Ethiopia: The Case of Ebc and Omn’s Reporting on Current Poltical Crisis in Oromia Region.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Aklilu, Endalkachew; Shiferaw, Yohannes (PhD)
    The media scenery of Ethiopia has been serving the groups controlling power over a long period of time. However, following the control of power of the incumbent government/EPRDF, and the declaration of free press, an encouraging sign of the growth of private media have been evident. This study aims at examining the polarization of state owned and private media focusing on EBC and OMN’S reporting the political turmoil in Oromia region. The study was guided by two questions: What were the dominant themes used by EBC and OMN in reporting the political turmoil in Oromia region? Are both EBC and OMN polarized in reporting the political turmoil in Ethiopia? The data collection method of the research delivered in both qualitative and quantitative approaches. To analyze the contents of the news, coding sheet was developed by the researcher from the review of literature. This helped the frequency of coverage, tone, themes, sources of information, and frames of news used. The researcher used purposive sampling for news content analysis. The Reports of the two media houses on the current political turmoil from September 2016 to October 2017 were chosen as this period was the time when the turmoil was too acute. The study found that the reports that stability report were dominantly used by EBC while reports focusing on Provocation for mass rally were the dominant themes for OMN. Further, the study found that the two media houses were polarized in reporting the turmoil due to the fact that the EBC supported the incumbent government actions and opposed anything against it while the OMN strongly supported the oppositions and blamed the government for all the ills. The study further found that the two media houses produced the majority of their news stories using with own journalists except that EBC using few news stories from ENA. The two media houses have never used each other’s news story as sources too. At last, EBC tried to either avoid numerical reports or reduce the numbers of causalties in a meaningful way while OMN exaggerate the number of victims in causalities.