The Making of Arab News

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 28 janv. 2005 - 163 pages
Since September 11, Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity. But is news coverage in Arab countries all that different from American coverage? The Making of Arab News draws comparisons, including examples of Arabic news language and their English translations, to show how Arab news values have been Americanized and how these values are reflected in the language used in the Arab news. Noha Mellor further discusses claims that the current development in the Arab news media could be the first step toward democratization.
 

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The Arab Region Similarities and Differences
17
History of Arab News
25
From Interpersonal to Mass Communication
26
News as a Unionization Tool
30
Forms of Control
32
The Bureaucratic Gatekeeper
36
Foreign News
41
Categorization of the Arab Press Rughs Typology Revisited
49
MSA The Language of News
109
The Development of MSA
110
Diglossia
112
Myths about MSA
116
Characteristics of News Language
117
Values in Language
123
Journalists as Language Custodians
124
Objectivity in the News Narrative
126

Evaluation of the Typology
51
The Press and Public Opinion
59
Arab Newspapers Abroad
61
News Values
75
News Is Politics
76
News Is a Social Responsibility
81
News Is Objective
87
Prominence
91
Newness
94
The News Genre
103
The News Genre
104
Structure
127
News versus Views
130
Attribution
134
Hierarchy of Textual Representation
138
Tense and Deictic
140
Conclusion
143
References
147
Index
159
About the Author
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À propos de l'auteur (2005)

Noha Mellor is a journalist and an external lecturer at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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