Author(s): Geeta and Dr. Kultaj Singh

Abstract:
The present study is comparative in nature, based on a quantitative content analysis of all the sports news and articles that covers games and sports during summer Olympic 2016 and Commonwealth Games 2018 in two daily Hindi newspapers of India. The names of two daily newspapers are Dainik Bhaskar, and Dainik Jagran in Hindi language. Dainik Bhaskar, and Dainik Jagran in Hindi language was collected for entire event days and five days before starting the event and five days after completion of event were taken. The summer Olympics 2016 lasted for 16 days so data collection was made for 26 days (Five days prior and five days post event) and The commonwealth games 2018 lasted for 10 days so data collection was made for 20 days (Five days prior and five days post event). The value of mean and median for the Demographic Factor male in Hindi media portrayal are in close proximity to each other therefore the distribution is near to normal. Both the values of skewness and kurtosis lie within the permissible limits of chance fluctuation. Since the distortion is negligible, data can be taken as normal. The value of mean and median for the Demographic Factor female in Hindi Media Portrayal are in close proximity with each other which shows that the distribution is quite near to normal. Value for standard deviation as a measure of dispersion, kurtosis and skewness falls within the accepted limits of chance fluctuation.

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