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This study was carried out with the sole objective to determine how Daily Sun and the Nation Newspapers covered Boko Haram Activities in Nigeria between April and May 2011. The researcher highlighted on the research problems and used them to raise four research questions and four research hypotheses; literature relating to the topic under study was reviewed through both primary and secondary sources of literature. The researcher used content analysis as the research method that enable her to use manifest contents of Daily Sun and the Nation Newspapers were able to cover the activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria between April and May 2011. The code sheet was used to analyze data from the newspapers covering 152 editions. Then, the researcher summarized the topic under study, drew conclusion and made recommendation based on the finding she made.
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Introduction
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The media have a distinctive culture in which images sounds, words and tenses help produce patterns of daily life behavior. Through the help of the media, individuals, groups and the society itself are made to understand how different issues go on in the society. We learn about issues which otherwise couldn’t have learnt through our consumption of the media.
This to a great extent helps us to form our individual and group opinions as a result of those mass media contents we consume. No wonder Ndolo (2006:32) citing Watter Lippman, states that the media help put pictures in our heads “An extension of this statement by Mccombs and show 1972, 1976) was highlighted by Ndolo (earlier cited) that audience not only learn about public issues and other matters through the media, they also learn how much importance to attach to an issue or topic from the emphasis the mass media place upon it.
A better understanding of mass media coverage of Boko Haram Activities in Nigeria with special reference to “Daily Jan” and the Nation Newspapers could be said to be better appreciated by our ability to understate the role, the media play in information gathering and dissemination in general. This is based on the premise that the media act as the watchdog of the society by mirroring the society and giving the society information about itself.
In Nigeria today, violence based on assassination, kidnapping, suicide bombing and a host of other vices seem to dominate media coverage of social issues going on in the country. But the most worrisome among them now, is the activity of the sect, terrorist group and religious fundamentalism group called Boko Haram. The terrorist group based on Borno and Bauchi states has stamped its authority as a deadly group to pear in the country evidences abound because the terrorist organization has carried out all sorts of bombings in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state. Also, the group have clashed with the Nigerian police force in the past as well as bomb some police stations in Bauchi and Borno states to drive its messages home.
Also, Daily sun, Wednesday, June 29,2011, page 20, in its inside page headline “ the Boko Haram riddle wrote that of all the recent development in the polity, one serious issue stands out as seriously deserving of attention. It is the Boko Haram riddle. This is a problem that is claiming so many lives and properly yet, No matter how hard Nigerian wish the problem of the religious fundamentalist sect which believes education is a scene to go away; it becomes more serious by day. Hardly any day passed without reports of bombs being detonated in one part of the north or the other. When Nigerians thought that the bomb explosion at the Nigerian police Head quarters, Abuja, on June 16 was the climate of the saga that would force a prompt resolution of the problem by the authorities, the bombing have continued unabated.
Through its persistent bombing of so many parts of the counting as well as claiming responsibility over such terrorist acts, Boko Haram has left no one in doubt that, it is out to kill, maim, kidnap and do all sorts of in human things in Nigeria. It is quite interesting to note that the rate at which this terrorists organization perpetrating terror in the country if adequate information is not provided by those charged with information gathering and dissemination on Nigeria, it will not be a surprise to hear that Boko Haram has taken over the security of the nation, by determining where to bomb or not.
In line with the above, it is important to state that the place of newspapers in the coverage of social activities such as, suicide attacks, assassination, arson and other negative activities going on in our society cannot be over emphasized. This is based on social responsibility principle of the media as well as their watch dog roles. They help their audience members to understand how best to shape their opinions on social issues. As McQuail and Windahl (1981:36) would assert.
The medium image held by the receiver causes expectations of the media content and may thus be assumped to have in influence of the receiver’s choice as well as on his way of experiencing it and responding it.
The statement above simply means that through the information provided by “Daily sun” and the Nation” newspaper, Nigerians can be sensitized on how the activities of Boko Haram are carried as well as how to avoid having contact with those who kill on the name of Boko Haram.
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