ABSTRACT

This article examines how Malawi’s leading newspaper publishers, Nation Publications Limited (NPL) and Times Group, covered and framed news stories on bloodsuckers (vampires) between September and October 2017. Drawing on framing theory, the study analyses news story texts, headlines, captions and pictures from 37 published articles to understand the impression created by the publications. The article argues that news framing took a complex approach tied to two major frames—crisis and indictment—that portrayed the vampire occurrence as a misconstrued quandary facing a seemingly clueless government incapable of dealing with the problem to save its credibility and legitimacy in protecting its people. The article further shows that despite the preferred frames, the dynamics of the events around the occurrence continuously twisted the framing decisions in both newsrooms. This compromised the publications’ role to enlighten the minds of the affected on the occurrence.

摘要

本文研究了马拉维的主要报纸出版商Nation Publications Limited（NPL）和Times Group如何在2017年9月至10月之间报道和陷害吸血鬼（吸血鬼）的新闻故事。该研究基于框架理论，分析了新闻故事的文字，标题和标题。和37篇已发表文章的图片，以了解这些出版物给人的印象。文章认为，新闻框架采用了与危机和公诉两个主要框架相关的复杂方法，将吸血鬼的发生描绘成一种误解的困境，面临着一个看似毫无头绪的政府，无能为力，无法挽救该问题并保护其人民的合法性和合法性。 。文章进一步表明，尽管首选框架，事件发生的动态不断地扭曲了两个新闻编辑室的框架决策。这损害了出版物在事件发生时启迪受灾者思想的作用。