The Making Of Arab News

Since September 11, Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity. But is news coverage in Arab countries all that different from American coverage? The Making of Arab News draws comparisons, including examples of Arabic news language and their English translations, to show how Arab news values have been Americanized and how these values are reflected in the language used in the Arab news. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Noha Mellor is a journalist and an external lecturer at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Copenhagen

List of Tables and Figures

ix

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(3)

Global Convergence

4

(7)

What Follows

11

(6)

Part I

The Arab Region: Similarities and Differences

17

(8)

History of Arab News

25

(24)

From Interpersonal to Mass Communication

26

(4)

News as a Unionization Tool

30

(2)

Forms of Control

32

(4)

News Agencies: The Bureaucratic Gatekeeper

36

(5)

Foreign News

41

(8)

Categorization of the Arab Press: Rugh's Typology Revisited

49

(26)

Evaluation of the Typology

51

(8)

The Press and Public Opinion

59

(2)

Arab Newspapers Abroad

61

(14)

News Values

75

(28)

News Is Politics

76

(5)

News Is a Social Responsibility

81

(6)

News Is Objective

87

(4)

Prominence

91

(3)

Newness

94

(9)

Part II

The News Genre

103

(6)

Khabar: The New(s) Genre

104

(5)

MSA: The Language of News

109

(14)

The Development of MSA

110

(2)

Diglossia

112

(4)

Myths about MSA

116

(1)

Characteristics of News Language

117

(6)

Values in Language

123

(20)

Journalists as Language Custodians

124

(2)

Objectivity in the News Narrative

126

(1)

Structure

127

(3)

News versus Views

130

(4)

Attribution

134

(4)

Hierarchy of Textual Representation

138

(2)

Newness: Tense and Deictic

140

(3)

Conclusion

143

(4)

References

147

(12)

Index

159

(4)

About the Author

163

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The Making Of Arab News

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