Framing of Population and Health Issues in Radio Environment Reporting

Ethiopian rich natural resource is being depleting by massive human activities. Population growth rate is very high. Amazingly, media are not giving comprehensive information to the public about the complexity of environmental and health problems. It seems that framing of population and health issues in radio environmental reporting is partial and just event oriented. The media seem to fail to take analytical approach in producing environment educational programs. A number of programs on population, health and environment issues have been transmitted through two dominant Ethiopian broadcast media; Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) and Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC). Therefore, this book has incorporated that to what extent population and health issues have been framed in both of FBC’s and EBC’s radio environment programs. The results of the study indicate that the radio environment programs in the media refer to population and health issues have rare depth of analysis although population growth is creating negative effects on human health and environment.