Abstract
Mr. Joe Biden quoting a saying from Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.), vows to lift the Muslim ban from day one in the Oval office. This study shows how the U.S. mainstream liberal and the conservative printed press gave Pakistan and Pakistani society coverage in the first year of Biden's Vice Presidency under President Obama when the U.S. military interests were high in the South Asian region. Employing thematic analysis with indexing theory, the study analyzes three leading U.S. dailies from January 2009 to January 2010. The study finds media frames, issues, and sources that confirm the practical implementation of indexing theory in American news reporting on crucial foreign policy issues. About Pakistan Muslim society, the U.S. media conclude that terrorism is in the “DNA” of Pakistani people, and militants will take over Pakistan and its nuclear bomb. This study adds to the indexing theory, propaganda, political, international, and strategic communication literature. Key Words: Islamic extremism, Sharia law, Pakistani nuclear bomb, al Qaeda, Vice President Joe Biden, American print media, War on Terror, Indexing, Liberal, Conservative.
Highlights
In the United States media, is not the part of government––Congress, Executives, Judiciary–– but it exerts equal power with other branches of the government, media in the U.S work as a "fourth branch of government"
THEMATIC FINDINGS Pakistan is hard to understand: "Islamic Extremism" is a "wild animal" and a "Global Threat." Tavernise (2009) writes in The New York Times that Pakistan, with a population of 170 million, is too hard to "figure out" because it has too many contrasts and lairs, but out of so many contrasts and differences, the leading press says that one thing is common in the blur and confusing picture of Pakistan, i.e., "Islam." The leading newspapers see Islam as a powerful tool to glue the nation, and it has been used for the political purpose of different leaders
American public and academia who are already suspicious and terrified with political Islam as a result of 9/11, Tavernise (2009) terrify them more by quoting an American based Pakistani Professor of Islamic history who said that Pakistanis don't have a sense of their whole; they could not define that which version of Islam they want to follow either, Turkish, Saudi, Sufi or Sunni/Deobandi which does not allow to talk to women, where laughter or even full smile is not permitted
Summary
In the United States media, is not the part of government––Congress, Executives, Judiciary–– but it exerts equal power with other branches of the government, media in the U.S work as a "fourth branch of government" (see, Beattie, 2019, p. 165; Jia & Lu, 2021). Violence-related themes––like national security threat, terrorism, ideological values, fear, danger, Jihad, etc.––are the ones that the U.S mainstream media generally associate with Pakistan and Pakistani society and create pictures in the heads by painting a world threatened by Muslims.
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