A Study on the Fake News Coverage in Cinema and Music Field among Eight Iranian Media

The purpose of this research is to investigate the coverage of fake news in the fields of cinema and music in eight Iranian media. And with this main question of how much fake news in the field of cinema and music has been published in selected Iranian news sources, placed it’s theoretical framework on the theories of "Gatekeeping" and "Agendasetting". This research was conducted using quantitative content analysis and its statistical population is all the news published in the last three months (1st of January to 29th of March 2017) in selected news sources. In the field of news, this survey was in the form of a total count and sampling was not done, but in the field of news sources, non-random sampling was targeted. News sources include news agencies, news databases, newspapers & social networks, and two media were selected from each category. In 2016, the Alexa website introduced the most visited news sources whit the website, which were selected from among the news agencies, Fars, Young Journalists Club (YJC), and from among the news sites such as Tabnak & Asr_e Iran. Among the newspapers, Hamshahri and Jam_e_jam were selected due to their high print circulation numbers and their cultural and artistic approach, and the two Telegram channels @Khabar_Fouri and @akharinkhabar were selected due to the high number of followers. The reason for choosing this period of time, was also because most of the film and music events are held in the winter season due to the coincidence with the Fajr decade. The findings of the research show that the coverage of fake news in the field of cinema was with an average of 3.69 and music with an average of 1.91, thus the coverage of fake news in the field of cinema was more than music.