Measuring Peace in the Media
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Measuring Peace in the Media
Author
The Institute for Economics and Peace and Media Tenor
Organisation
As above
Date
October 2010
Type
Report
Contents |
About
The Institute for Economics and Peace and Media Tenor have jointly analyzed global TV networks coverage of peace and violence issues using a fact-based approach which compares various measures from the Global Peace Index against Media Tenor’s database of global media. The results of this analysis are presented in this report.
Key findings
- On the whole, media coverage is quite well aligned with the Global Peace Index, with some exceptions
- In relatively peaceful countries, rare violent events tend to receive the majority of international coverage
- Less peaceful countries had far fewer reports on the structures of peace
- The ten least peaceful countries were reported on far more frequently than the ten most peaceful countries
- Countries where conflict ended or subsided had a dramatic fall in the level of total coverage
- Coverage of the Middle East tended to focus on Violence topics, with a very small proportion of positive stories
- Middle Eastern TV programs were the most likely to report positively on Afghanistan
