A Wrestling Match between mass Media Channels: Decoding Media Bias and the relation to specific Political Parties in Pakistan.

“My name is Safoura Usmani and I am from the class of 2023.  I am a Culture & Politics major, pursuing a certificate in Media and Politics. Growing up as a third culture kid in Qatar, the only way I remember seeing the politics of Pakistan be played out was on the Pakistani news channels which my dad watched every night after he came back from work. All I remember is being young and watching these news channels where the rivalries between different political parties were being played out on talk shows and how different media channels would be trying to display a different narrative than the other. Although I was too young to understand much years later when I was 13, during the 2013 elections I saw the rivalry between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) get played out to great heights.

The Portfolio titled: A wrestling match between mass media channels: Decoding media bias and the relation to specific political parties in Pakistan takes a look into the relation between the mass media channels and the main political parties of Pakistan, the political parties in question are Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The portfolio looks into the rivalry between these two political parties and the history they hold together and then the timeline across which you can notice the shift in opinions of the two major news channels: GEO TV and ARY TV. We will then be able to look into how both these channels have supported PML-N and PTI through political campaigns and tried to take the other down and display very biased narratives. Overall, this portfolio will shed light on the lack of free media and how these biased media channels are able to control the public opinion. “

Faculty Mentor: Uday Chandra

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