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The print media coverage
of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks: A study on the coverage
of leading Indian newspapers and its impact on people
M. Neelamalar*, P. Chitra and Arun Darwin
Department
of Media Sciences, Anna University Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India.
*Corresponding author. E-mail:
nmalar@yahoo.com.
Accepted 23 October, 2009 |
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Since its independence in 1947, India has been facing the
problem of terrorism in different parts of the country. This
research is an analysis of the media coverage of terrorists’
attack on Mumbai (one of the busy metros of India and the
business capital of the country) on 26 November 2008 (now
the attack is popularly known as 26/11). The research is
carried out to know the people’s opinion about the media
coverage, to find out how people responded to the newspaper
coverage, whether the coverage was biased or
sensationalizing, how people responded to the coverage,
whether they gave a fair coverage to the incident and to
find out whether they commercialized the issue.
Key words:
Mumbai, terror attacks, media, coverage, impact. |
