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Military intervention in Nigerian politics : what has the press got to do with it?

Military intervention in Nigerian government has recurred since 1966 amidst social, economic and political crises, and the opinion in some academic and political circles is that the mass media are responsible for creating conducive atmospheres under which such crises and destabilisation flourish. The argument holds that the independent press frames governments, especially civilian administrations, so negatively that the ensuing portrayal of political catastrophe makes it imperative for a forceful intervention rather than a constitutional change.;This thesis assumes that the role of the press i…