ABSTRACT
This research work seeks to examine to what extent the press content (restricting it to print media) affect the choice made by the public toward a particular political candidate. It examines theories as related to the field of mass communication, which emphasis the media key role in determine what perception the public build on a political figure. To this end, the study is pattern along the Instructive Stimulus Response Theory or the “Hypodermic needle/magic bullet” theory of the print media and the social responsibility theory of the press as reinforced by the Hut Plus commission of 1947. be that the research is quantitative as the case provide, a survey method was use along side the instrument of questionnaire, where the simple random sampling technique was used to gathered data from the resident of the three local government areas of Igabi, Kaduna South and Kaduna North which make up the Kaduna metropolis. Understanding the limitation as associated with the print media, being that it is more prominent among the elite, the research work after analyzing and interpretating the gathered data in chapter four went further in chapter five (being the provision for conclusion and recommendation) to proffer ways in which the press will be used, when the right atmosphere is provided, as the only machinery through which information can be transfer to the general public and perception build and shape thereafter, in their bid to choose a political candidate of their choice during election, citing our current dive as a nation into the fourth republic with a proper functioning of democratic principle.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Cover Page
Title Page
Declaration
Approval Page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of content
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Purpose of the Study
1.3 Significance of the Study
1.4 Statement of Problem
1.5 Theoretical Framework
1.6 Scope and Limitation of Study
1.7 Research Hypothesis
1.8 Definition of Terminologies
CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Growth and Early Historical Development of the Nigeria Newspaper
2.3 The Newspaper Message
2.4 Newspaper in the Service of the State
2.4.1 Public Watch-Dog
2.4.2 Information Role
2.4.3 Representation Role
2.4.4 Realization of Common Objective
2.5 Relative Importance of the Nigeria Press (Newspaper) to the Society
2.6 The Newspaper, Politics and the Choice of Political Candidate.
CHAPTER THREE
Research Methodology
3.1 Research Design Techniques
3.1.1 Historical Research Method
3.1.2 Descriptive Research Method
3.1.3 Survey Research Method
3.1.4 Experimental
3.2 Sources of Data
3.2.1 Primary Source
3.2.2 Secondary Source
3.3 Data Gathering Instrument
3.4 Statistical Technique in Data Gathering
3.5 Sample/Population of Study
3.6 Sample Size
3.7 Data Analysis and Technique
CHAPTER FOUR
Data Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation
4.1 Section A: Personal Data of Respondent
4.2 Section B: Testing the Research Questions
4.3 Discussion of Research Findings
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
Bibliography
Appendix
