An Evaluation of the Impact of Governmental Supports on the Content of Iranian Published Press from Journalist's Views

A great part of the economic life of newspapers in Iran deepens on the support and subsidiaries paid by the government. This article is an attempt to evaluate the the effects of these supports using the Hegemony and Media Norms Theories. In doing this it will try to offer a picture of the conditions under which these supports are organized. This study will analyze these supports and their impact from the perspectives of three levels of journalists namely Principalist, Professional and Reformist journalists. According to this study the journalist working for principalist newspapers are in favor of these supports but are asking for some reforms aiming at more transparency of policies. The professional journalist which includes the academicians who teach journalism at universities who can be called the moderate journalists, although see many problems in this kind of supportive policies and are demanding for a total review on the aims and methods of applying these policies, yet they believe that a sudden elimination of these supports will be risky. And finally the journalist belong to reformist newspapers are critical of the governmental supports. They believe that the subsidiary payments are basically an obstacle for making independent newspapers and therefore should be revoked.