Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Assistant professor of journalism, communications faculty, Allame Tabataba'i university
Abstract
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.
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