Analysis of Pakistani and Indian Media towards Warfare

Abstract

This research is conducted to analyze the behavior of Pakistan and Indian
media’s role towards warfare between both countries. We took Pulwama
attack, Balakot airstrike and fighter jets shot down as a case study, and
widely studied the claims made by both countries. We also included the
stance of BBC news on this issue. In this paper, the authors conducted
research on fake or true news being broadcasted from 14th February 2019 to
5
th March, 2019 by India and Pakistani news channels, and categorized this
news being source of warfare between both countries. However, we have
limited our research to only two famous TV channels of India named as
AajTak news and India Today, and from Pakistan we picked Geo news and
ARY news. Indian TV channel AajTak aired more than 450 news and almost
40 special programs, while India Today aired 154 news and 30 special
programs. On the other hand, Pakistan’s Geo News broadcasted total 122
news and 5 programs while ARY news aired 137 news and 4 programs on
this issue. Based on our collected data we categorized the news of all four
channels as fact-less, fact-based content and supported, not supported
content towards warfare between both countries. According to our
conducted hypothesis results more than 80 % content of Indian channels
was fact-less and 20 % content was fact-based. While Pakistani media
broadcasted 90 % fact based content and 10 % fact-less. We also concluded
that 90 % Indian media content weather fact-less or fact-based was aired in
a way that supported warfare among both nations and 70 % of Pakistani
media content, despite being fact based, has also supported warfare