alireza abdolahinejad; Ahmad Omid
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This study is intended to discuss the development of Iran and the United States relations in the English-based international media by reading the related news material on CNN, Fox News, Al-Jazeera and Press TV websites. The quantitative content analysis has been used in this study and the statistical ...
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This study is intended to discuss the development of Iran and the United States relations in the English-based international media by reading the related news material on CNN, Fox News, Al-Jazeera and Press TV websites. The quantitative content analysis has been used in this study and the statistical population includes 465 news materials during the first six months of 2019. In this study, the systematic random sampling method was used in alternate weeks, which resulted in 27 statistical days.The research findings show that most of the reviewed articles have a negative bias (64.5%). Among the reviewed websites, CNN has the highest negative bias (72.1%) according to the materials belong to Iran-US relations. In the other hand, Al-Jazeera website has the lowest negative bias (53.6%) in this regard.The research also shows that the news value of conflict was the highest among the surveyed websites with 75.3%. In the meantime, the Press TV website was the vanguard with 40.3% of all the published content.Finally, most of the reviewed websites have been focused on the news coverage related to “military, defense, war, missile capabilities and psychological operations” subjects. In this regard, Press TV was the vanguard of this category among other websites. The news about “sanctions and resolutions” was the second most used news item. In this respect, Press TV was also the vanguard.
Ali Omidi; Mehrdad Rashidi Alavijeh
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Since late 2013, Ukrain has been the scene of various social-political events and developments. The Spark of crisis has started when Victor Yanakvych, the incumbent president refused signing a trade agreement with the EU. It provoked many people to oppose the decision by striking in Kiev’s Independence ...
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Since late 2013, Ukrain has been the scene of various social-political events and developments. The Spark of crisis has started when Victor Yanakvych, the incumbent president refused signing a trade agreement with the EU. It provoked many people to oppose the decision by striking in Kiev’s Independence Square. These developments in the short term led to the emergence of a pro-Western government in Kiev, the separation of the Crimea and East regions from Ukraine. Aside the different aspects and origins of the crisis in Ukraine, the role and influence of the news media in shaping public opinion and directing the events are undeniable. The Cable News Network (CNN) and RT (Russia Today) along their strategic policies have framed the Ukrainian crisis in special directions. The main question of this paper is that how the satellite news networks of CNN and RT has framed the Ukrainian crisis. The hypotheses of this paper are: 1. The CNN has framed the Independence Square protests (Maidan Revolution) as well as overthrowing Viktor Yanukovych Government as popular and pro-democratic revolution. It also framed the referendum and annexation of the Crimean peninsula to Russia as aggression and occupation. But RT has framed the popular protest as Westen –provoked ilegal munity and the Crimian annexation as along democracy and International Law. The methodology of this paper based on descriptive-analysis research using content analysis. The data collection is carried out according to library resources and the Internet.