Public Media Reporting Of The Conflict Between The Federal Government Of Ethiopia And The Forces Of Tplf The Case Of Etv And Ttv

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Public media is an organization to serve the public equally and objectively in disseminating information which helps the society aware of what was happened, what is happening and even what will happen in the form of news, educational program or other forms of content. Public media differs from the private one in which it focused on the profit of the owners, but Public media focuses on informing, educating and entertaining the public without discrimination, because it gets its fund either from the public in the form of license fee or from the government that is collected in the form of tax. In both cases the source of the money is the public and that is way its main objective is to serve the public equally. Unfortunately the current public media in Ethiopia are not serving the public equally as the findings of the thesis indicated; rather they are taken by the political arrangement of the current ethnic politics which is the main source of the conflict in the country. Using content analysis qualitative research, the analytical examination of the news stories showed that the two media are highly polarized in entertaining the interests of Political Parties who owned the media. The research identified that ETV favored the Federal Government and Tigray TV favored TPLF in reporting the news stories during the conflict between those two government bodies. Both media biased the facts on the ground and broadcasted divisive contents to escalate the conflict in Tigray that broke out in November 2020. Even after military confrontation both media indicated political parallelism by demonizing and undermining the rival to deceive the audience. Particularly Tigray TV was not only partisan in its reporting, but also it practiced ethnic parallelism to isolate the people of Tigray from the rest of the people of Ethiopia by portraying messages that indicates an attack on Tigray people from the neighboring community. ETV on the other hand underestimated the violent conflict to the level of law enforcement operation which involves high scale military ammunition in the violence. So the study showed that those media are public in name but politically parallel to the conflicting bodies to aggravate the military confrontation in Tigray Regional State, Ethiopia.

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Public Media Reporting Of The Conflict Between The Federal Government Of Ethiopia And The Forces Of Tplf The Case Of Etv And Ttv

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