مقالات الرأي لأحداث عاصفة الحزم في الصحافة اليومية السعودية : دراسة تحليلية في إطار نظرية التأطير الإعلامي

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Opinion Articles and the Events of Asifat Al-Hazm in the Saudi Daily Press: An analytical study in the framework of media framing theory.

The study aimed to identify the opinion articles of the events of Asifat Al-Hazm in the Saudi daily press.

The descriptive analytical method was used for the analysis of opinion articles.

(726) newspaper articles were analyzed in the period from (22/4/2015) to (26/3/2015).

The researcher was interested in the functions of the four theories of media: identifying the problem, providing a causal analysis, and its referee nature (or moral judgments) in it and promoting ways to solve them as well as to identify the impact of time development and its strengths or weaknesses and linking them to the goals of Asifat Al-Hazm.

The study highlights the most important results in determining the problems of Asifat Al-Hazm.

The issue of protecting the legitimacy in Yemen came in the first place with a rate of 7.38%, then the security problem in second place with 2.14%, then the religious problem ranked third with a rate of 4.11%, and then the problem of Saudi security and neighboring countries in the fifth place with a rate of 3.3%.

As for the causal analysis of the problem, the security factor came in first place with a rate of 3.45%, then opinion articles that do not correspond to any of the causes of Asifat Al-Hazm in the second place with a rate of 5.32% and then the religious reason in the third place with a rate of 2,17%.

With regard to the nature of referee or the moral judgments of the problem and its causes, referring to the legality of Asifat Al-Hazm proof process, the study showed that the opinion articles were not based on any statement or law of Asifat Al-Hazm operation which is ranked first with a high percentage of 4.90%.

In order to promote solutions for Asifat Al-Hazm, and based on the framework of the resolution of the international conflict (in Yemen), the articles which were not based on any framework of the solution of the problem of Asifat Al-Hazm were ranked first with a rate 2.98%, and then based on the solution with a rate of (0.7%).

Then, in third place (repeated) coercion / competition, political solution, and nothing was published with a rate of 3.0%.

Then, in sixth place withdrawal / avoidance, calmness and harmonization with a rate of 1.0% The eighth rank did not mention any problem solving of Asifat Al-Hazm by settlement The results of the study also revealed that the opinion articles focused (which indicates the strength of opinion articles) on some aspects of the events of the Asifat Al-Hazm (the problem and the causes of Asifat Al-Hazm), which were in line with the aims of the first and second Asifat Al-Hazm: which was responding to the Yemeni president's demand to confront the aggression against his country and its people by the Houthi militias and the forces of its ally Ali Abdullah Saleh and protect the legitimacy in Yemen.

It clearly omitted (which indicates the weaknesses of opinion articles)the removal of the threat to the security of the Kingdom and neighboring countries which was considered the third the third aim of Asifat Al-Hazm with a rate of 3.3% which means 22 articles out of 726 articles.

The opinion articles also overlooked other aspects: the moral judgment of the problem and the reasons for Asifat AlHazm to return to the legality of Asifat AlHazm process, as well as the promotion of conflict resolution, based on the frameworks of resolving the international conflict (in Yemen) and not touching the latter goal of Asifat Al-Hazm target which is the importance of the elements associated with Asifat Al-Hazm.

In this study, only in two elements: to identify the problem and provide causal analysis.

The results of the study also indicate that there is a correlation in all distributed weeks in the size of the theoretical for time management.

The first week took the highest percentage followed by the second week, then the fourth week, then the third week.

It is realized that the third week was less than the fourth week with 26 articles out of a total of 726 articles with a ratio of 3.58 to identify the problem and 35 articles with 4.28 to promote problem solution; thus making the door open to conduct studies and add recommendations that lead to opinion articles development of Saudi daily press opinion Articles.