Abstract

This paper, entitled “Study of orientation and news coverage about Daesh crisis by websites of IRNA, BBC Persian and Voice of America”, comparatively explores structure and how to cover news in websites of IRNA, BBC Persian and the voice of America. The paper is conducted in descriptive-analytical method and by the way of content analysis. Data has been studied in library method. Survey and examination of existing documents as well as analysis of the content of news websites are presented in descriptive tables. The type of organization and how to cover news differ in three websites of BBC and IRNA, Voice of America. Every three websites have specifically emphasized on the element “who’’, “news value’’ and “fame’’, indicating their person-oriented and talk orientation. Finally, it was concluded that most published news are “non-productive’’ in three websites, however IRNA’s portion is more than others. Conceptually, the issue of Daesh group resistance, the employment of Jihadi groups, the effort to manifest Daesh an Islamic group, introducing Daesh governmental philosophy as an Islamic government and not mentionning to its terrorist nature has been under survey and attention of these three websites. The focus of IRNA and Voice of America is mostly on “hard news’’ but BBC concentrates on “soft news’’ or reflection of events along with complementary information. Publication of “photo’’ has been used as interactive and multi-media facilities by news websites. Unlike IRNA, websites of BBC and Voice of America have highly made use of Email and links to topics and relevant websites.

Highlights

  • History of media goes back to entire human life, and it has been always used as a tool to attain human’s objectives in various aspects

  • Survey and examination of existing documents as well as analysis of the content of news websites are presented in descriptive tables

  • As the advancement of science, satellite, internet and mass media over the last decades, and as News networks like BBC and CNN are equipped with image transmission system and transferring global issue to far away countries as well as the ability to speak with other regions even media, they have gained the power of influence and effective presence among public thoughts (Gue, Holton & Sun, 2012: 26)

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Introduction

History of media goes back to entire human life, and it has been always used as a tool to attain human’s objectives in various aspects. Media has turned into an instrument to defend foreign policies as well as to value and convey message It plays a justifying role of public perspectives in the area of foreign policy by legitimating state policies and conveying messages to those involved in diplomacy. Regarding research related to current study, it is possible to explain Claude research entitled media, symbolic power and Bourdieu theory limitations which address social theory (even if they are most interrelated with media, ideological analysis, post-modern theory and system theory) and how media affect its key concepts In his research, he knows reformed-version Bourdieu theory as the best starting point. State policy makers and programmers can benefit this type of research

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