Broadcast News Framing of the Attack on Federal Army North Command (FANC) and War Outbreak in Tigray, Ethiopia: A Comparative Study of EBC and Dimtsi Woyane
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2023-10
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Addis Ababa University
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This thesis examines the framing of FANC attack by TPLF related force, by taking TV broadcastings about the attack from EBC and DW and exploring them in a comparative way. A content analysis and thematic analysis of six broadcastings, three of them from EBC and three others from DW, are used in the analysis and exploration of framing in this study. The findings indicate that there is remarkable divergence in the framing of the broadcastings in the two media houses regarding the attack and subsequent war outbreak. Their coverage is under influence and interest, showing their affiliation to the federal government in case of EBC and to TPLF in case of DW. EBC framed that the attack is perpetrated by a terrorizing TPLF and its act as inhuman. It is represented as an attempt to retain power by force. DW, on the other hand, considers the act as an operation to defend an imminent attack on Tigray, which is arranged by Abiy’s regime, Eritrea (Esayas Afeworki) and Amhara forces-threefold antagonists.
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