Abstract
Egyptian revolution is also known as the lotus revolution. This revolution comprised of a series of street demonstrations and civil resistance against Hosni Mubarak, the long serving president. Egypt is one of those countries where people rejected the dictatorship of their old rulers, as under that governance public had to face a verity of problems such as political censorship, food price inflation, unemployment, corruption etc. Armed forces supported the riots and promised for the new elections. Media played contributory role in the accomplishment of the anti-government protests that led to the resignation of the country’s dictatorial leader; Western media gave it the name of ‘Face book’ and ‘Twitter’ revolution. But it was the firm skirmish of the young and angry activists who were against the dictatorship of Mubarak. They kicked him out and army supported them. To analyze the framing of the Pakistani newspapers regarding this issue content analysis of Dawn and The Nation has been done in this research paper. The news stories and editorials of both papers are examined both qualitatively and quantitatively. News stories have been categorized to better evaluate the extent of coverage given by both of the Newspapers. For this purpose editorials have been divided into positive, negative, and neutral paragraphs. Results shows that Dawn gave less coverage to the issue The Nation gave a comparatively larger coverage to the issue.
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