Over Reliance of Pakistani English Press on Foreign News Wires; a quantitative content analysis of one week coverage of three English dailies of Pakistan

The purpose of this research is to find out the percentage ofextensive presence of news content taken from foreign newswires in English dailies of Pakistan. The study has beenconducted by analyzing international pages of three mostwidely read English dailies of Pakistan i.e. Dawn, The Newsand The Nation in terms of replication of the content from theinternational news wire services. It has been done throughquantitative content analysis and in order to find out theextensive use of news content and percentage of similarity, aplagiarism software WCopyfind_2.7 was used. One weekpublications of three mostly read English newspapers, duringthe month of May, 2015 were taken as a sample. News storiespublished on the international pages were only selected. Theresults indicated that the stories published on internationalpages of three newspapers were almost similar to the originalstories taken from news feed of international news wires, withvery minimal contribution of original content by the mosthighly acclaimed newspaper organizations in the country. Theconsequences of this overwhelming dependence were theconveyance of only one sided interpretation of the incident, itscauses and after effects