ეკოლოგიური და გარემოსდაცვითი საკითხების გაშუქება ქართულ ონლაინ–მედიაში

This work presents research of coverage of Environmental and Ecological issues according to three top-rated online-media ,,Liberal’’ , ,,On.ge’’ , ,,Primetime.ge’’. By analyzing the articles published in abovementioned online editions, our mission was to study attitude of the Georgian Media towards the Environmental and Ecological issues. We also tried to study if Environmental and Ecological issues were enlisted in the agenda of the online-platform: are critical environment issues covered? Are the problems, existing in this field; identified in timely manner? How often and frequently are articles written on these issues and what professional standarts do they have? To make assessment, we took into consideration amount of resources, preciseness and accurateness of the story told and geographical area while covering the problematic issue.
For research methods we selected quantitative and qualitative content-analyzes and utilized Framing theory and detailed interview.
Quantitative and qualitative research of the subjects of our research strengthened our hypothesis that Georgian online-media is not sensitive towards the Environmental and Ecological issues. In the focus of coverage often occurs event based news and most of articles are written in the style of the News and there are no issues about the reason and the result of such events. According to the Framing theory, we found our frames of Georgian Media while covering the abovementioned issues. Detailed interview enabled us to explain impaired interest of Georgian Media toward the Environmental Journalism.