Newspaper Editors Research Articles

The Missing Narratives: Exploring the Experiences of Malaysian Journalists and Family Members and Friends of Victims during the MH370 Aviation Crisis

The MH370 crisis which attracted global attention is considered one of the most perplexing disasters in aviation history by aviation experts. One of the highlights of the crisis was the alleged inability of Malaysian journalists to provide accurate information on the issue. Maximum news coverage, commentaries, expert views, and researches were carried out regarding the issue. However, most of them only focused on how Malaysian authorities handled the crisis. None ventured into Malaysian journalists’ perspectives particularly on their concerns regarding their coverage of the crisis. Therefore, this study seeks to investigate the perspectives of journalists from the selected newspapers on their framing of the crisis, the alleged inconsistencies in their coverage, and the perceived lack of access to information. By giving journalists a voice to express their views on their performance, it is hoped that will deepen knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of press freedom, ownership, and control in the country. Through qualitative data analysis, the study found that MH370 news frames were greatly influenced by both internal and external factors, ranging from individuals to state levels. They include lack of experience in aviation news coverage on the part of the local Malaysian journalists; the internal gatekeeping process by the news editors of various newspapers which tend to undermine the work of journalists; and the seen and unseen restrictions experienced by journalists and media houses at the state level. References

LEXICAL BORROWING IN MALAYSIAN ONLINE NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS: A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH

Lexical borrowing is words that have been transferred from the native language and integrated into a different language (Hamdi, 2017). Studies on newspaper editorials have drawn a large readership, yet it is not been given enough coverage in terms of borrowed words used by the editors in English language newspapers. This paper examined the types and frequencies of lexical borrowing. This paper used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Haugen's (as cited in Annab, 2019) pioneering work of lexical borrowing was used in this research. Three forms of lexical borrowing, namely loanwords, compound blends, and loan transitions/claque were found. In this paper, four months of editorials from The Star Online were transferred into a text files by using Microsoft Word and imported into WordSmith Tool version 6 (henceforth WST 6) to generate the data. Results reflect that the highest frequency of lexical features identified was loanwords (84%), followed by compound blends (9%), and loan transitions (7.5%). The top three highest borrowed words used by editors were the words Pakatan, Datuk, and Barisan. Conclusively, as large amounts of borrowed words exist in English editorials, this phenomenon should be eliminated. This is because one of the ways to elevate Malaysian English (henceforth ME) to meet and sustain with the International level is to uphold the quality of the English language in newspapers. Besides, relevant stakeholders should work together to increase the quality of editorials as newspapers are part of authentic materials used in education.

Secrets, spies and editors in Cold War America: Ben Bradlee and the Washington Post

This essay considers secrets, spies and newspaper editors in the context of the Washington Post’s relationship with the CIA. The associated relationships and thoughts of Ben Bradlee, long-serving editor of the Washington Post and one of America’s most iconic journalists, are examined in detail. Bradlee spent much time reflecting on what the appropriate relationship between spies and the media should be and this is captured in his correspondence. This article argues that because the tensions between national security secrets and a free press were often negotiated informally though personal networks, this terrain is best analysed using ideas borrowed from social history. Editors were often wily mediators between Washington’s twin worlds of secrecy and publicity. It also suggests that in considering the CIA and the press, we need to give a little less attention to intrepid reporters and more attention to editors and owners who exercised more power. Overall, this realm is one of human relationships, best viewed not through the prism of policy documents, but through private papers or interviews.

Clothing the New Poor Law workhouse in the nineteenth century

AbstractThe workhouse remains a totemic institution for social historians, yet we still know very little about the day-to-day experiences of the indoor poor. Nowhere is this clearer than in discussions about workhouse clothing, which remain overwhelmingly negative in the literature and consistent with the predominant view of the workhouse as a place of suffering and humiliation. Yet more often than not, this view is based on relatively shallow empirical foundations and tends to rely on anecdotal evidence or on the uncritical use of subjective sources such as photographs, newspaper editorials and other cultural products. This article takes a different approach by looking again at the whole range of meanings that workhouse clothing held for paupers and those who oversaw its allocation, and at the practical and symbolic usages to which it was put by them. On the basis of this evidence the authors argue that, contrary to the orthodox view, workhouse clothing was rarely intended to be degrading or stigmatising; that it would have held very different meanings for different classes of paupers; and that, far from being a source of unbridled misery, paupers often found it to be a source of great strategic and practical value.

The Satirical Press and Its Impact on Public Consciousness in Modern France (Based on “Le Canard Enchaîné”)

This article, based on the satirical weekly newspaper “Le Canard Enchaîné”, examines the impact of the satirical press on public consciousness in modern France. The source base of the research is a selection of publications “Le Canard Enchaîné” for 2009-2020, as well as special editions of newspapers and the most significant investigative materials of previous years, with a total of over 150 copies and a sample of more than 600 contexts. To better understand the principles of its journalism (e.g. it does not accept any advertisements), the materials of an interview conducted by the author in 2013 in Paris with a journalist from “Le Canard Enchaîné” staff were used. The weekly features a wide range of ways to influence the reader, including both speech techniques to manipulate the information as well as expressive means of language, many jokes and cartoons that appeal to emotions instead of reason. At the same time, lexical, stylistic and syntactic means have always been carefully selected and developed, creating a special style of the newspaper known as “Le ton Canard”; its major function is to appeal to emotions of the readership with the purpose to model their perception of political events, politicians, government members, and French personalities. Special attention is paid by the author to the analysis of some famous investigations and, in particular, the coverage of “the Jérôme Cahuzac case”, as well as the presentation of last three French presidents on the pages of the weekly: F. Hollande, N. Sarkozy and E. Macron.

Pandemia as a catalyst of consolidation of online media and social networks of the korean diasporas in the cis

The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on the public and private lives of people around the planet. For the first time, the media devoted to the single topic – Covid-19 newspapers’ editorials and prime time on the air for a very long time. The demand for information had skyrocketed, and it seemed that the media would only benefit from the hype. However, soon, contrary to expecta- tions, the destructive impact of the pandemic on the media became obvious. The paper is aiming to consider the peculiarities of the Korean diaspora media, which allowed them to stay afloat amid the pandemic; to examine the challenges faced by print media in the pandemic; analyze the mechanisms of overcoming the encountered problems in the context of global digitalization and technological convergence. Currently the feasibility of expanding online communication and information exchange has become obvious. The pandemic has clearly highlighted the trends in the transit of public and private life from the off to online world. The paper points to the strategy for the diaspora digital mass media development and gives practical recommendations to ethno cultural associations how to support their virtual com- munication and information network. The research methodology is based on the main principle of historicism, since the prospect of the formation of online media network of Russian-speaking Koreans in the CIS is substantiated by a retro- spective of the diaspora existence and functioning of its traditional media. As a result of the study, the relevance of the consolidation of Korean online media in the CIS was substantiated. The author points out that the consolidation of Diaspora media will provide the cuts of expenditures, diversity of content and reinforcement of cultural exchange with the historical homeland. The value of the article lies in the novelty of the approach in the studies of traditional and online media of the Korean Diasporas in the pandemic and quarantine. The lessons obtained in the case study can be extrapolated to the mechanisms of the formation of online networks of other Diasporas in the CIS. The key points of the paper were presented at the international conference of the CIS Korean Di- aspora media (Moscow, 2021) and were approved by all the participants – chief editors of newspapers and moderators of internet resources. Currently a charter document for institutionalization of the Korean Diasporas online media network is under development. Key words: diaspora, internet, consolidation, content, media, social networks.

Determining the Concept of National Development in Iranian Newspapers: Exploring Reformism and Conservatism Periods

This paper aims to understand the concept of development in Iranian newspaper editorials during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known as reformism and conservatism periods, respectively. To this end, a quantitative content analysis of 440 editorials was carried out to investigate four dimensions of development. The findings indicated that the evolution of the development concept was varied in reformism and conservatism periods. The concept of development with indicators such as freedom of speech, dynamic communications with foreign states, and establishment of civil society were highlighted in the editorials of the press during the reformism period. Whereas, in the editorials during the conservatism period, the focus was on economic development and indicators such as targeted subsidy plans and reaching nuclear energy.

Constructing Ideology through Modality in Newspaper Editorials on Security Challenges in Nigeria

This paper explores Nigerian media’s deployment of modality on editorials on security challenges in Nigeria. The study examines how such impress on the ideological position of the media on the security issues in Nigeria. The study relates to how well Nigerian newspaper organisations attempted to reveal or mask security cases across different regions of the country through modal options. The editorials were sourced from The Punch and The Guardian (South-Western region), Vanguard and The Sun (East) and Leadership and Daily Trust (Northern Region) between 2014 and 2016. The frequencies and percentages of occurrences of these modality markers were examined and their implications were interpreted to reflect the attitudes and dispositions of the newspapers to security issues. Our findings show that the six newspapers expressed unbiased concerns over the Boko-Haram Insurgency whether or not the newspaper is situated in the northern region. However, the fact that certain security issues emanated from particular regions also prompted the kinds of modal markers employed by specific newspapers representing such regions. The Sun’s choices of modal indirectly expressed support for their plights and protests of the pro-Biafra agitators. The Punch’s choices of modal verbs portrayed President Buhari as sharing some ethnic affinity with herders.

Whites and Browns: A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse in English Newspaper Editorials

Metadiscourse is an interesting field of inquiry that is believed to play a vital role in organizing and producing persuasive writing. It is a set of linguistic devices used to communicate attitudes and mark the structural properties of a text. The study aimed to investigate whether native and non-native varieties of English varieties are similar or different from each other from the perspective of interactional meta-discourse markers. The study as contrastive rhetoric research scrutinized a corpus of 900 newspaper editorials (450 written in native English newspapers and 450 written in non-native English newspapers). Editorials were culled from 15 native English newspapers belonging to three native English countries, England, America, and New Zealand, and 15 non-native English newspapers belonging to three non-native English countries, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka. Based on the model of metadiscourse given by Hyland (2005), interactional metadiscourse resources were analyzed. The frequencies of interactional metadiscourse markers in both native and non-native varieties were counted and compared with each other. The results disclosed that there were worth-pointing differences between the native and non-native English editorialists in the use of interactional metadiscourse markers. Two different varieties of English editorials showed variations particularly in the use of hedging and self-mention markers. On the whole, findings suggested that the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in native English editorials were more frequent than those in non-native English editorials which made their writings more appealing and convincing context.Keywords: metadiscourse; native; non-native; newspaper; editorials

The Saudi Vision 2030: Reproduction of Women’s Empowerment in the Saudi Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has witnessed rapid and unprecedented reforms within the framework of the Saudi Vision 2030. These reforms have been the focus of the print, electronic and social media over the recent years. Despite the prolific news reports relating to the economic, social, and political reforms that have been associated with the emergence of the Saudi Vision 2030, there is a general lack of studies on the ideological construction of these reforms in the Saudi press. As thus, this study seeks to explore the news representation and ideological construction of the vision 2030 reforms in the Saudi press. It focuses on the reproduction of women’s empowerment in the Saudi press. For this purpose, a corpus of 1578 newspaper articles, reports, stories, and editorials published in Arab News and Saudi Gazette is designed. Analysis of the data is carried out through corpus-based critical discourse analysis. Results indicate that the Saudi press, in accordance with ideological orientation, reproduced the vision 2030 as matter of public interest. Both the selected newspapers exhibited a great inclination towards endorsing the women’s empowerment as stipulated in the vision. The Saudi Vision’s representation of women’s empowerment is reflected and reproduced in many ways in newspapers’ articles, reports, stories, and editorials. This study is limited to the articles, reports, stories, and editorials released after the emergence of the Saudi Vision in 2016. Further research is recommended on the influence of the Saudi press on the representation of the women’s rights discourse in the Saudi Vision 2030; it may also include the public opinion about transformational reforms. Keywords : corpus-based critical discourse analysis, discourse reproduction and ideological construction, newspaper representations, Saudi Vision 2030, women’s empowerment

The Saudi Vision 2030: Reproduction of Women’s Empowerment in the Saudi Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has witnessed unprecedented reforms within the framework of the Saudi Vision 2030. However, despite prolific news reports related to economic, social, and political reforms associated with the Saudi Vision 2030, there is a general lack of studies on the ideological constructions of these reforms in the Saudi press. As thus, this study seeks to explore the news representation and ideological construction of the vision 2030 reforms in the Saudi press. It focuses on the reproduction of women’s empowerment in the Saudi press. For this purpose, a corpus of 1578 newspaper articles, reports, stories, and editorials published in Arab News and Saudi Gazette is designed. Analysis of the data is carried out through corpus-based critical discourse analysis (CDA) quantitatively and qualitatively through a concordance, frequency, collocates, and dispersion. Results indicated that the Saudi press, under its ideological orientation, reproduced the vision 2030 as a matter of public interest. Both newspapers exhibited a great inclination towards endorsing women’s empowerment as stipulated in the vision. The Saudi Vision’s representation of women’s empowerment was reflected and reproduced in many ways in newspapers’ articles, reports, stories, and editorials. This study was limited to the newspaper content released after the emergence of the Saudi Vision in 2016. Further research is recommended on the influence of the Saudi press on the representation of women’s rights discourse in the Saudi Vision 2030; it may also include the public opinion about such transformational reforms.Keywords: corpus-based CDA, discourse reproduction, newspaper representations, Saudi Vision 2030, women’s empowerment

From 29 May to 12 June: Journalistic Framing of Change in the Date of the Commemoration of Democracy Day in Nigeria

ABSTRACT This paper investigated newspaper editorial framing of the change in the date of the commemoration of Democracy Day. The study adopted framing analysis as its research method. Drawing from Van Dijk’s (1992. “Discourse and the Denial of Racism.” Discourse and Society 3 (1): 87–118) model of editorial analysis which focuses on Definition, Evaluation and Recommendation, this research interrogates newspaper’s portrayal of the change of democracy day from 29 May to 12 June. To frame the issue, these newspaper editorials embarked on the remembering of the cancellation of 12 June elections. Based on the recollection of the past and the current events, these newspapers framed the shift in the date of the commemoration in contrastive ways, namely, as an attempt to rewrite the evil of the past and a spurious gesture. The study concluded by arguing that both media recollection of past and framing of current events were subjectively organised to achieve a specific goal. The implication of the study was discussed.

Copying a Master: London Wholesale Couture and Cristóbal Balenciaga in the 1950s

Cristóbal Balenciaga is widely recognized as one of the leading twentieth century couturiers. His dynamic designs redefined fashionable silhouettes internationally. This paper will consider the impact of his designs in Britain, focusing upon how London wholesale couturiers copied, adapted and took inspiration from his garments. The majority of London wholesale couturiers’ garments were copied or adapted from Parisian haute couture. They modified these designs to meet ready-to-wear manufacturing techniques, producing high-quality garments targeted at a middle-class consumer. By focusing on two silhouettes introduced in the late 1950s; the sack and baby doll, this paper discusses how these firms translated Balenciaga’s designs. The sack, in particular, was rapidly adapted by London wholesale couturiers who managed to successfully modify it for the ready-to-wear market. By drawing on a range of source material, including original garments, newspaper and magazine editorials, this paper will evaluate how Balenciaga’s design esthetic was translated by wholesale couturiers for consumption by a middle-class public in the 1950s.

Exploring ideological messages in newspaper editorials and news reports on the first human gene-editing case

This chapter explores evaluative standpoints, opinions and potentially ideologically charged messages in newspaper editorials and news reports covering the birth of the first human gene-edited twins. The corpus under analysis consists of British tabloid and broadsheet news reports and editorials covering the case. The analysis is carried out applying the combined paradigm of Critical Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory and Appraisal Theory, with a predominantly linguistic focus. The evidence adduced indicates that most news reports and editorials pass negative evaluative messages starting from their headlines and ending with the local textual structures. The readership is oriented towards a given interpretation of the event using negative judgment and negative affect derived from the headline. The texts of news reports and editorials demonstrate overlapping sequences of evaluation and argumentation. News reports tend to provide the reader with a more explicit yet depersonalised evaluation of the event, as the responsibility for the opinion expressed is shifted to third parties through the mechanism of attribution. Editorials, on the other hand, tend to argue the preferred outlook by syntactic structures and, specifically, concessive constructions and concur-counter patterns.

Review: The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami, by Monika Gosin

Review: <i>The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami</i>, by Monika Gosin

“Their New Jerusalem”: Representations of Jewish Immigrants in the American Popular Press, 1880–1903

AbstractMillions of immigrants arrived in the United States during the Gilded Age, drastically altering the ethnic character of the American citizenry. This dramatic social change was met with mixed reactions from the native-born population that were vividly communicated in the popular press. Cartoonists for newspapers and magazines across the country developed a language of caricature to identify and distinguish among ethnic groups and mocked new arrivals in imagery that ranged from mild to malicious. One might assume that the masses of Eastern European Jews flooding into the country (poor, Yiddish-speaking, shtetl-bred) would have been singled out for anti-Semitic attack, just as they were in Europe at the time. However, Jews were not the primary victims of visual insults in America, nor were the Jewish caricatures wholly negative. Further, the broader scope of popular imagery, which, in addition to cartoons, includes a plethora of illustrations as well as photographs, presents a generally positive attitude toward Jewish immigrants. This attitude aligned with political rhetoric, literature, newspaper editorials, and financial opportunity. This article will propose a better alignment of the visual evidence with the scholarly understanding of the essentially providential experience of Jews in America during this period.

(2807) Proposal to conserve the name Acalypha wilkesiana against A. tricolor (Euphorbiaceae)

(2807) Acalypha wilkesiana Müll. Arg. in Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 817. Aug (sero) 1866 [Angiosp.: Euphorb.], nom. cons. prop. Typus: Fiji, [Viti Levu], Rewa, “Unit. Stat. explor. exped. under Capt. Wilkes” (G-DC barcodes G00324021 & G00324022; isotypi: GH barcode GH00045512, K barcode K000959008, US Nos. 1944717 & 1944718 [barcodes 00096423 & 00096424]). (=) Acalypha tricolor Veitch ex Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1866: 483. 26 Mai 1866, nom rej. prop. Neotypus (hic designatus): “Hort. Veitch, New Hebrides [Vanuatu]”, Jul 1844 (K barcode K001235482). In late August 1866, Johannes [Jean] Müller [“Argoviensis”] described Acalypha wilkesiana Müll. Arg. (in Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 817. 1866) from material collected in Fiji during the United States Exploring Expedition commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, 1838–1842. This species is not known from the wild, but has long been cultivated as an ornamental in Melanesia (Pax & Hoffmann in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV. 147 XVI (Heft 65): 153. 1924; Fosberg & Sachet in Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 45: 10. 1980); by 1866 it was being grown in Europe (Nicholson, Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 7. 1885). It is now popular throughout the world, being grown for its showy, usually multicolored leaves that sometimes have unusual shapes. It has escaped from cultivation and become naturalized in tropical and subtropical parts of Africa, the Americas, and Asia (Govaerts & al., World Checkl. Euphorb., https://wcsp.science.kew.org, accessed 20 Jan 2021; Levin in FNA Ed. Comm., Fl. N. Amer. N. Mexico 12: 165. 2016). Among the synonyms of Acalypha wilkesiana listed by Seemann (Fl. Vit.: 225. 1867) and some later authors (e.g., Pax & Hoffmann, l.c.) is A. tricolor Hort., with no reference to a place of publication. However, as shown by Mabberley (in Feddes Repert. 101: 275. 1990), this name was published in The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Gard. Chron. 1866: 483. 1866) in reference to a plant given that name by the nurseryman and plant collector John Gould Veitch. The article was not signed, but appears to have been written by the newspaper's editor, Maxwell Tylden Masters, to which the International Plant Names Index (https://www.ipni.org/n/337889-1, accessed 19 Jan 2021) attributes the name. Although the description is brief (an Acalypha “with ovate acuminate leaves of a brownish-green cast, and some of the portions as if they had been stained with red lead”), it is diagnostic of A. wilkesiana. The description of A. tricolor presumably was based on a living plant as it was in a report of new plants at the “Exhibition of Flowers […] on Tuesday last at South Kensington”, and no type has been designated previously. However, there is a specimen of A. wilkesiana with variegated leaves (faded, but apparently green and red) in K (stamped “Herbarium Hookerianum 1867”) that bears a handwritten label saying “‘Acalypha tricolor’ Hort. […] Hort. Veitch”, apparently indicating it was grown by Veitch; the label also suggests that the specimen is from a plant collected by Veitch in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in July 1844. There apparently being no original material for the name, the K specimen is here designated as the neotype. Because that issue of The Gardeners’ Chronicle was published on 26 May 1866, about three months before Müller's work appeared, A. tricolor Veitch ex Mast. is a validly published, older name for A. wilkesiana. The name Acalypha wilkesiana or its synonym A. amentacea Roxb. subsp. wilkesiana (Müll. Arg.) Fosberg (in Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 45: 10. 1980) have been consistently used for this well-known and horticulturally important species since 1866 (cf. publication lists at Govaerts & al., l.c.; Plants of the World Online, http://powo.science.kew.org), whereas A. tricolor has never been accepted, although ‘tricolor’ is sometimes used as a cultivar name. In the interest of nomenclatural stability, we propose conserving the name Acalypha wilkesiana Müll. Arg. against A. tricolor Veitch ex Mast. GAL, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1514-1570 VGS, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-0648 We thank David Mabberley for calling our attention to his paper, cited above. We are grateful to John McNeill and John Wiersema for their editorial comments. Lynn Gillespie provided valuable comments on an early version of the paper.

Fenomena Berkurangnya Misleading Advertising pada Iklan Baris di Surat Kabar (Penegakan Etika Periklanan untuk Perlindungan Konsumen)

Classified ads in newspapers are a form of advertisement widely used by small businesses or individuals who offer goods and services. This study aims to describe and explain the phenomenon of classified advertisements that often occur in newspapers, especially local newspapers, and to identify how far classified advertisements in newspapers follow advertising ethics and legislation so that readers as advertising objects are not misled by the information contained in the advertisements. This type of research is normative-empirical, which uses a qualitative approach. The research examines legislation, regulations that discuss advertising and consumer protection and empirically dig up information in the field about classified ad impressions in newspapers that are considered misleading advertising, and makes observations and digs up information to competent parties with the problem under study. The results showed that some classified advertisements in local newspapers with limited information made the advertisements misleading advertising. Still, there was the fact that there was a significant decrease in the number of classified ads in local newspapers as well as a reduction in the number of misleading advertising that was caused. This phenomenon is caused by 1) the number of classified advertisements as a whole has decreased drastically 2) The awareness of newspaper editors regarding consumer protection for advertisement readers in newspapers has begun to be implemented by accommodating Indonesian Pariwara Ethics, Law No: 8/1999 on Consumer Protection, Law No: 40/1999 concerning PRESS, Law No: 7 1996 concerning Food, and PP No.69 concerning Food Label and Advertising. 3) Much online advertising space, both paid and free, is also the cause of the reduction in misleading advertisements in newspapers today.&#x0D;

The Press Bureau, ‘D’ Notices, and Official Control of the British Press's Record of the First World War

AbstractConcerns about fake news and media manipulation are commonplace in contemporary society, and, throughout the twentieth century, historians regularly presented the First World War as an era of manipulated public messages. Yet, despite broad statements about the impact of press censorship in First World War Britain, publication of an official history of the ‘D’ notice system, and growing revision of historical understanding of the interaction between the state, the press, propaganda, and the public during the war, no thorough assessment of the content of the D notices issued by the Press Bureau to newspaper editors has been undertaken. This article provides a thorough analysis of the more than seven hundred notices issued during the war years. While drawing attention to several exceptions which exceeded plausible claims of a threat to security, it argues that most notices genuinely sought to protect potentially dangerous information and that casual assumptions about misleading state press management are not borne out by a close reading of the actual notices issued.

Editorial Treatment of Arab-Israeli Relations in American Press

This descriptive research examined how attention paid to Arab- Israel relations news editorials in newspapers. To explore the state of Arab- Israel relations, editorials in newspapers content analysis has been conducted. Two theories were utilized: agenda-setting theory and framing theory in mixed-method research. By selecting three newspapers, 320 editorials related to Arab- Israel relations were obtained in six months from 15 Nov, 2020 to 15 May 2021 through purpose sampling. The findings of the study concluded that mostly editorials discussed the topics of Arab- Israel conflict/crisis and Israel's recent recognition by Arab states, which are highly reported in this time period. Most editorials were in positive/favorable, negative/unfavorable, and neutral directions, respectively. Two-thirds of the editorials discussed the nonscientific evidence. USA press (The Washington Post) have more tendency to present and focus the Arab-Israel relations-related editorials in positive/favorable direction content as compared to other newspapers.