Abstract
This study examines the divergent approaches to media coverage of regional conflicts in the Middle East across prominent news outlets representing Western and Middle Eastern perspectives. This research investigates how geopolitical crises are framed and presented to global audiences through a comparative analysis of two leading international networks—a major U.S.-based news organization and a prominent Middle Eastern broadcaster. The main objective is to examine the specific narrative techniques, source selection modality, and editorial emphases used by these media to cover brutal regional conflict. The research clarifies the implications of different media representations on how and what an audience gathers from the event. Examining these types of different journalistic practices will inform the relationship between media representation, audience perception, and the wider discourse on international relations. Thus, it contributes to scholarly knowledge on how media framing can either help or hinder the public’s understanding of neoteric geopolitics and which confidently might craft the impediments or parameters with which policy discussions, at one level or the other, could be taken up through diverse cultural and political contexts.
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Acquaful, John Bosomtwe
(2024)
"Framing Geopolitical Crises: A Comparative Study of U.S. and Middle Eastern Media Narratives, Bias, and Influence,"
International ResearchScape Journal: Vol. 9, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25035/irj.09.01.06
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/irj/vol9/iss1/6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25035/irj.09.01.06