Review of political waves arising from the debates of the 2009 elections

According to some, the 2009 elections are considered one of the most controversial in Iran, so the present study examines the political-media waves created by the debates in this election. Each debate has a particular impact on the news media, and the present study uses quantitative and qualitative content analysis to categorize the news from each debate, taking into account criteria such as the amount of news coverage, the time distribution of coverage in several different media.The issues raised in the newspapers were classified as political waves. Political waves, following Wolfsfeld in the theoretical model of politics-media-politics, initially begin in the political environment (here the same arena of debate), are formed in the media with extensive coverage and the design of various news stories. Changes in the political environment are being pursued.In the analysis of the detected waves, this logic was considered so that the waves could be examined more deeply. In this election period, the reflection of all the debates was followed in a unified manner in 9 news media; as a result, the identified waves were considered to be the result of all the debates. In the 2009 elections, waves of "false and baseless statements" and "confrontation and disclosure of economic corruption", "aristocracy and corruption of those around Hashemi and Nategh Nouri" were created.