Incidents of oil pollution has become a reoccurring decimal over the last twenty decades in most countries of the world. The controversy over who is responsible for the massive oil pollution witnessed in some oil-producing countries globally has amplified tensions between significant stakeholders in those countries. The issue of oil pollution in Nigeria and Ghana, for instance, has caused ecosystem degradation, the devastation of means of livelihood of local communities, and the death of aquatic organisms such as fish. Our study investigated the effects of the five news frames identified by Semetko & Valkenburg (2000); responsibility, economic consequences, conflict, human interest, and morality. Through content analysis, our study analyzed 531 newspaper stories on oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger-Delta region from 2014-2018. The results indicated that overall, the effects of the human interest frame usage were more prevalent in The Daily Sun newspaper than the other two papers, The Guardian and The Punch, within the study period. This was followed by economic consequences, responsibility, conflict, and morality frames. Also, the study revealed that the effects of the differences in the frequency of using the frames in the coverage of oil pollution in the three selected papers varied significantly.

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印刷媒体报道的框架对石油污染的影响：以尼日利亚报纸为例

在过去的 20 年里，在世界上大多数国家，石油污染事件已经成为一个反复出现的小数点。关于谁应对全球一些产油国发生的大规模石油污染负责的争论加剧了这些国家重要利益相关者之间的紧张关系。例如，尼日利亚和加纳的石油污染问题已导致生态系统退化、当地社区生计遭到破坏以及鱼类等水生生物的死亡。我们的研究调查了 Semetko & Valkenburg (2000) 确定的五个新闻框架的影响；责任、经济后果、冲突、人类利益和道德。通过内容分析，我们的研究分析了 2014-2018 年尼日利亚尼日尔三角洲地区 531 篇关于石油污染的报纸报道。结果表明，总体而言，在研究期间，人类兴趣框架使用的影响在《每日太阳报》中比其他两篇论文《卫报》和《拳头》更为普遍。其次是经济后果、责任、冲突和道德框架。此外，研究表明，在三篇选定论文中，使用框架的频率差异对油污报道的影响存在显着差异。