معالجة الصحافة الأردنية لصورة جماعة الإخوان المسلمين : دراسة تحليلية مقارنة

Abstract EN

This study aimed to examine the attitude of the Jordanian dailies toward its coverage to the Jordanian Muslims Brotherhood (JMB), by analyzing the content of what was published about JMB in its dailies' coverage.

The study comes after a short period of Jordan's allies in the region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt to take legal action to ban the JMB and legally classified it as a "terrorist group." During the time of the study from 2010 to 2015, there are 1517 published article in the dailies under the analysis: the pro-government newspaper "A1 Rai" (The Opinion), the pro- Islamist newspaper "A1 Sabeel" (the Path), and the independent newspaper ”A1 Ghad" (The Future).

A simple random sample was used and consists from 300 news stories 1100 story from each newspaper], which accounted for 20% of the population.

The results showed that the newspapers of the study relatively presented the topics of JMB in a positive way (about a half of the sample), but the majority of the stories were presented in unfair and non- objective coverage.

Also, the results indicated that conflict frame was the most used in the analysis and the humanitarian frame was the least used in the study.

News, articles, and reports were the most journalistic arts used in the analysis, however, interviews and investigations were the least presented in this study.

In addition, sources from JMB were the most cited in this study, following by mixed sources, then governmental people.