Abstract
The pervasiveness of mass media has become an inevitable side of our daily life; the ubiquity of the latter has allowed an unprecedented influx of information that is not necessarily value free and objective. The news that is present on our devices is full of ideological insinuations and is undoubtedly value laden. News corporations have spread enormously and reached different homes, especially with the advent of technology which permitted an outreach to distant various communities with a simple click. There are daily articles released claiming to have the most breaking and exclusive scoops of news that was not covered. Nevertheless, people find themselves overwhelmed and unable to differentiate between what is authentic and what is not. Not only that, but they ostensibly newspaper claim to have an innocent editorial line that matches worldwide media ethics, the truth is certainly a far cry from what is publicized. Every day, covert ideologies and doctrines are passed through news articles that target specific communities that either tend to vilify it exclude to perpetuate certain clichés and stereotypes about it. So this paper aims to critically analyze an article in the Daily Mail British newspaper which was written on British Muslim minorities, it address the issue of religion in a generalized way using extreme categorization, so as to infiltrate and increase division and animosity in British community. The paper uses a set of critical methods of discourses analysis to uncover hidden and even explicit messages ideologies in the article that. The analysis shows how implicit strategies are utilized to display a binary line between US and THEM. The THEM group is synonymous with extremism, irrationality and oppression against women whereas US is portrayed as a group serving justice and eradicate fanaticism and radicalism.
Highlights
Throughout the years media has always pretended to play a major role to mirror what people think, believe, or reject
In brief, the paper demonstrates how discourse analysis is a very effective method to detect western ideologies embedded in news discourse that is deemed by laymen as quite objective and value free in all perspectives, the hypothesis that has been rebutted in the present paper showing that newspaers have implicit messages underlying certain agendas
This is manifest overtly in the article where the term Islam is often synonymous with extremism, irrationality and oppression against women that succumb to the patriarchal power imposed on them unwillingly through segregation or other forcible acts such as marriage
Summary
Throughout the years media has always pretended to play a major role to mirror what people think, believe, or reject. The latter does not suffice neither match up with media’s general ideological patterns of a certain group, instead it is the source from which different and fast-growing paradigms stem from, that are daily being redefined manipulated and magnified to a certain extent. News corporations tend to subtly naturalize discourse and render it innocent to reach a certain purpose On this basis, discourse analysis has widely been useful to warn and sensitize critical and uncritical readers who could be oblivious of the various and elusive strategies used by news agents
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