A STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL ISSUES THROUGH CARTOON COMMUNICATION: THE CASES OF PAKISTAN AND NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPERS FROM SEPTEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2009

This paper is a study of relationship of print media cartoons andthe portrayal of international issues. this is an effort to explorethe portrayal of international issues through the cartoons publishedin the two norwegian newspapers (the vg & the aftenposten)and the two pakistani newspapers (the news & the nation) fromseptember 2008 to february 2009.for the sake of evaluating thenature, degree, frequency and stance of the international cartoons,the international issues, variables and categories are constructedunder the light of main postulates of the one aspect of the agendasetting theory that is “framing”. through a content analysis (bothqualitative and quantitative), discourse analysis and interviewmethod, it identifies that in the case of the norwegian newspapers,the vg is more critical than the aftenposten, while in the case ofpakistani newspapers, the nation is more critical than the newsregarding the cartoon coverage of international issues during thisselected period. the international issues were not covered andcriticized equally by both cases as there may be some hiddenpressure to the cartoonists to suggest what to sketch or not? howto portray or not?