A comparative analysis on the news coverage of the 12th presidential election on Press TV and BBC websites
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As one of the most important political events in each country, election is always of great importance for the people and also national and international media. The charm of election drives people to pursue the electoral programs and the news related to this event more seriously. This gives the media an opportunity to communicate with a wider audience community and through releasing the contents fits in policies, aims and ideologies of their owners, have the most impact on public opinion. Over the past few years and in line with the expansion of the internet, news websites have reached to a special place among audiences and became one of the most important news sources for getting news. This matter lies in several factors including quick and easy access, interactivity, low cost and fast release of the news. Hence, intelligent presence in this field can be very important for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting and in particular Press TV news channel to compete with international competitors like BBC. The present study has scrutinized the way two websites Press TV and BBC- covered 12th Iranian presidential election. Quantitative content analysis is the method used in this research and the statistical society is all the news published by the two websites in the 20-Day period of candidates’ presidential campaign. A total of 62 news gathered and scrutinized. The results of the research indicates that the most frequent news orientation in Press TV website was related to the Positive orientation and the most frequent news orientation in BBC website was related to Negative Orientation. Reformers were also had the most frequency in target orientation in Press TV website and Principles and Supreme Leader had the most frequencies in BBC website. About process-oriented and event-oriented news; most of BBC website news were published in the form of processoriented and most of Press TV news were presented in the guise of event-oriented. The news published in the two websites were mostly based on Prominence news values. At last, among the news writing techniques, Refute was mostly used in Press TV website and to pretend neutrality was the most frequent new writing technique in BBC website.
Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of News Sciences, Volume:7 Issue: 26, 2018
Pages:
21 to 57
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