Does Al Jazeera make a difference? The framing of the Iranian election 2009 by Al Jazeera Arabic and CNN International
The election in Iran 2009 caused a serious crisis in Iranian society. The news media around the world reported about alleged manipulation, election fraud and other irregularities. “Where is my vote?” became the rallying cry of Iran’s opposition. This paper presents a crossnational comparative med...
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| Format: | Article |
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FU Berlin, University of Erfurt
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Global Media Journal: German Edition |
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| Online Access: | http://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-24473/GMJ2_schenk_ahmed_final.pdf |
| Summary: | The election in Iran 2009 caused a serious crisis in Iranian society. The news media
around the world reported about alleged manipulation, election fraud and other irregularities.
“Where is my vote?” became the rallying cry of Iran’s opposition. This paper presents a crossnational
comparative media analysis of news reporting on the Iranian election and the subsequent
national and international reactions. It focuses on how a controversial political event was covered
by two of the world´s leading television news broadcasters: Al Jazeera Arabic and CNN
International, with a particular focus on Al Jazeera. Two theoretical frameworks were adopted: a
contra-flow approach – Al Jazeera as an alternative source of news – as well as its role with respect
to democratization. Two flagship news programs were analyzed over a six-week period in summer
2009. With quantitative framing analysis as the central methodology (using statistical factor
analysis), we focused on the content of 66 television news stories. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-4807 2196-4807 |