The role of press and media is significant in providing information about incidents and events, facilitate the readers and the audiences with factual information that helps in their perception or opinion of the incidents or events which create awareness among the people and the society about the looming challenges that would seemingly intimidate harmonious living at both individual and collective level. In Print Journalism, the process of ‘News-Gathering’ is important since it initiates and catalyses the process of communication. News-Gathering is carried by individuals and groups depending on the intensity of the event or incident. The tactics of journalism news coverage play an important role in our perception of a protest and its legitimacy in the public agenda-setting.
Framing and “media logic” are means to presents these narratives. Framing means the processes in which journalists, who are in the dynamic process of constructing meaning, present their interpretation of subjects and events in the form of a news narrative. Framing means the process in which the journalists choose and categorize information. They choose the arguments and adopt a position. In so doing, in fact, they create a frame in the consciousness of the subscribers. It is generally associated with the term “agenda setting” in which the journalists decide “what is important”. It is agenda setting that defines what is “worth reporting” for public attention. Entman, defines as the emphasis placed upon the reasons for the problem, its moral judgment, and suggestions for the best way to deal with it. Framing thus fulfills an important task in the structuring of the reality that is presented covered in interpretation using metaphors or selected connotations suited to the chosen narrative. “Media logic” refers to that the mass media gained power not only by cementing their institutional status but also by developing a commanding discourse that guided the organization of public space.
Key words: Study ,Presentation ,Select, Print, Media
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