Abstract
This study analyzed three leading international news magazines The Economist, The Herald and Time treatment on American armed operations in Afghanistan through the prism of the Galtung war/peace journalism indicators. The researchers studied qualitatively and quantitatively 347 news items of the abovementioned newsmagazines. One way Anova and chi-square were used to find out the relationship between the study’s variables. The findings indicated that The Economist and Time used regularly the frame of war reporting whereas peace journalism frame was frequently used in The Herald. There was an indispensable contrast in the treatment of The Economist, The Herald and Time about American armed operation in Afghanistan. The Economist as well as Time planted partisan and legitimated U.S. military operations as the most appropriate solutions to punish Osama Bin Laden for being the mastermind of 9/11 incident and to crack down Taliban regime in Afghanistan which was the main source of Al-Qaida network. Whereas The Herald embraced the peace reporting outlines and frequently conceded the voice to the unvoiced casualties by highlighting the nonmilitary personnel losses, coincidental losses and agonies of the casualties of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
Keyword(s)
Peace journalism, War Journalism, framing, U.S. Military Operations, Afghanistan