Notion of National Media on Political Islam and Muslims ( 20 : 30 TV News )

Abstract

This study aims to examine the notion making of national media from political Islam and Muslims in order to create a self-regulatory which may be more appropriate than using the true image of Islam and Muslims in the world. This study investigates the amount of news devoted to Islam, the symbols of Muslims in news related to Islamic countries and Muslims in news section of national media. Considering the nature of the subject, the present research analysis the content of the news broadcasted in each section using the analysis method. The population of the present research includes 312 news programs of channel two of Islamic Republic of Iran which were broadcasted from September 2012 to November 2013. The sample was randomly selected. In other words, 24 news programs were analyzed during one year. The results of news analysis indicated that the news section of 20:30 did not have specific and goal-oriented strategies for correcting the views about Islam and it is trapped by the thoughts of global media. In fact the same two-dimensional image of Muslims in western media is illustrated here. That is radical and extremist Muslims are shown in the news and Muslims are shown as bias ones that cannot control their own destiny. Another important point in this range is lack of national news about the reality and the national news are shown by a lot of consideration.