Religious-News Agenda-Timeline and Proximate News Locations’ Relativity of Similarly Situated National Newspapers

Abstract

In view of rapid sophistication of contemporary media news management, it has become enticing to question certain aspects such as the extent of similarity between religious-news coverage of media organizations operating within similarly situated national media. Even in a more diverse intercultural mass contemporary societies, some nations have insisted and foisted certain religion as state-religion. While most persons consider religion as a powerful avenue for gaining awakening, identity information, the mass media is then used as the means to frame and narrate such perspectives. Hence, this content analyses derived data research is presented. With a valid Scott’s pi, Cohen’s kappa, Krippendorff’s Alpha instrumentation result of between 0.826 and 1; originally scaled at ≤ 5% error = 2 [Reliable]; > 5/ ≤ 10% error [fairly reliable] =1; > 10% error =0 [not reliable], the major finding pointsthat overall coverage of religious and spiritual news among the randomly selected newspapers is very poor. However, across the four national dailies, local religious news coverage was well higher than those of international and foreign coverage.