Analysis of Football Hooliganism in the Ethiopian Media: The Case of Addis Zemen Newspaper
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2021-06
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Football hooliganism issue has become a common incident today in Ethiopia and a focus area
for Ethiopian print media. The media have a remarkable power for predicting the seriousness
and providing awareness creation to football hooliganism problems in the society. Hence, the
purpose of this study was to examine how football hooliganism issue was reported specifically in
Addis Zemen newspaper. This study utilized both quantitative and qualitative research method to
examine the coverage of football hooliganism in the newspaper. The sampled newspaper was
purposely selected based on national newspaper/ its accessibility to reach large audience and
based on daily newspaper/ timeliness to cover the stories within a day when it occurs; as a result
it insures that the message is current and relevant. The sampled period was covered 9 months
from November 2018 to July 2019. This period was selected because; during this time high
football hooliganism incidents were occurred. The researcher prepared four research questions
to meet the objectives of this study. To answer these questions the researcher has employed
quantitative content analysis and in depth interview techniques. A quantitative content analysis
was used to gather the data from the analyzed newspaper. In-depth interviews were also
conducted with two sport journalists and a sport editor of the newspaper. The results revealed
that Addis Zemen newspaper used different frames and sources in covering football hooliganism.
Consequently, responsibility frame was dominantly used with 28.57%. Conflict, diagnostic and
prognostic frames were moderately used. But morality frame was the least used frame with
3.57%. Likewise, feature stories were the most frequently covered story types with 42.86%
whereas news stories were at the least level with 25%. Equally important, the significant
numbers of the stories were covered at the back page of the newspaper with 53.57%. But there
was no coverage on the front page. Moreover, the newspaper was dominantly relied on
federation and research document sources with 35.71% each. Government officials and
Meetings & workshops were used to in a limited extent. But police, victims and individual
sources were not used in the newspaper. Concerning tones, negative tone was dominantly
observed with 46.43%. It is recommended that the newspaper must give attention to use balance
sources and focuses on causes and solutions of the problem in coverage of football hooliganism
in Ethiopia.
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purpose of this study was to examine how football hooliganism issue was reported specifically in Addis Zemen newspaper