Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya: Understanding Media Bias

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2020/4-2020/dominika-kosarova.html" target="_blank" >http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2020/4-2020/dominika-kosarova.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2020.23.4.87-108" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2020.23.4.87-108</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya: Understanding Media Bias

Original language description

Several studies have been dealing with the question of whether state-sponsored Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are biased. Their findings suggest that the message of both media reflects the interests of their respective state-sponsors. This article aims to validate this assumption, however in contrast to already existing literature it will test the hypothesis on a non-conflict related case study: the coverage of Muslim Summit which was held in December 2019 in Kuala Lumpur. To achieve the objective, we seek to first identify Al Jazeera’s and Al Arabiya’s bias, its specific features and the message delivered by means of comparative discourse analysis, namely manipulative strategies and ideological square as defined by Blass and van Dijk, respectively. Afterwards, we examine how the identified bias fits into the strategic interests of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, their respective state-sponsors. The analysis shows that both media, when covering Muslim Summit, used manipulative techniques to deliver the opposite message about the Summit, which is in line with their state-sponsors’ often incompatible regional ambitions and foreign policy. This article contributes to already existing literature on Arab media discourse analysis by focusing on a specific non-conflict-related issue not covered by other studies making thus the hypothesis applicable more broadly.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politické Vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

1338-5623

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

87-108

UT code for WoS article

000607490200005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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