Newsworthiness in the Reporting of Donald Trump’s Presidential Victory: Linguistic Analysis of News Values in Pakistani News Channels

Abstract

The win of Donald Trump in the 45th Presidential American Elections perverted the world’s political views. This study focused on the analysis of News Discourse presented in the reporting of Donald Trump’s victory by the two Pakistani News channels-PTV and Geo News. The study employed Bednarek and Caple’s (2017) Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) which investigates how news values are constructed through linguistic devices; therefore, empowering judgments into shared news and adding linguistic focus to the news studies. Results revealed the use of news values such as Consonance, Eliteness, Impact, Negativity/Positivity, Personalization, Proximity, Superlatives, Timeliness, and Unexpectedness in the data sets; residing with variation in the ‘preferred’ norms specific to the organization. Moreover, the results highlighted the larger contribution of Consonance, Eliteness, Negativity, Proximity, and Superlatives in comparisonwith other ones. The findings also revealed Positivity in news discourse, while the
impact of the event seemed to be highlighted.