Making of Arab News

Name: Making of Arab News
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ISBN: 9780742538191

ISBN-10: 0742538192

ISBN-13: 9780742538191

Edition: 2005

Authors: Noha Mellor

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In recent years, attention in the West has increasingly been focused on the activities of Arab news broadcasters & agencies & their role in covering world events for an Arab audience. This book asks if Arab journalists have been rightly stigmatised as biased & lacking objectivity?

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Noha Mellor is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of East London



List of Tables and Figures


Preface


Introduction


Global Convergence


What Follows






The Arab Region: Similarities and Differences



History of Arab News


From Interpersonal to Mass Communication


News as a Unionization Tool


Forms of Control


News Agencies: The Bureaucratic Gatekeeper


Foreign News



Categorization of the Arab Press: Rugh's Typology Revisited


Evaluation of the Typology


The Press and Public Opinion


Arab Newspapers Abroad



News Values


News Is Politics


News Is a Social Responsibility


News Is Objective


Prominence


Newness






The News Genre


Khabar: The New(s) Genre



MSA: The Language of News


The Development of MSA


Diglossia


Myths about MSA


Characteristics of News Language



Values in Language


Journalists as Language Custodians


Objectivity in the News Narrative


Structure


News versus Views


Attribution


Hierarchy of Textual Representation


Newness: Tense and Deictic


Conclusion


References


Index


About the Author