A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE REALIZATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PEACE JOURNALISM IN THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF GEORGIAN-LANGUAGE MEDIA RESEARCH)
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https://doi.org/10.52340/jo.2023.01.06.04Keywords:
Peace journalism, Conflict, Local Media, Foreign MediaAbstract
Based on research into contemporary Georgian media, the article aims to provide a critical understanding of the principles of peace journalism. Galtung and Ruge’s principles of peace journalism, based on research of Norwegian news media
coverage of conflicts in foreign countries and an important part of their critical understanding are built on a unified approach that considers all media as a kind of entity of homogeneous subjects and thus carries universal content, the lack of differentiation in mass media between local and international media working on the conflict case, as well as between covering local and international news, should have been a problem in implementing the principles. This should be expressed in the intensity with which some of the obligations contained in the principles are implemented, because the media’s ability to fulfill them would be essentially limited, depending on their various broadcasting spaces and audiences.
These principles, which were developed in the spirit of modernism, are likely to fluctuate in the modern media of the countries affected by the current conflict, just as they do in Georgia’s modern media. The synthetic content analysis of the cross-sectional content selection of three Georgian media outlets, as information agencies operating in a conflict-affected state examines the intensity of the implementation of the four principles of the concept of peace journalism and investigates the circumstances that facilitate or hinder the implementation of the specified principle.
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