Media frames US-Chinese relations in the websites of US and Chinese news channels - a comparative study for the Arabic-speaking CNN & CGTN website

Abdel Hamied Hassaan, Walaa Ibrahim

doi:10.21608/jsb.2022.218859

Media frames US-Chinese relations in the websites of US and Chinese news channels - a comparative study for the Arabic-speaking CNN & CGTN website

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Walaa Ibrahim Abdel Hamied Hassaan

Lecturer at Radio and Television Department, Faculty of Arts - Mansoura University

10.21608/jsb.2022.218859

Abstract

The problem of the study is to reveal the processing frameworks of the websites of the two American channels CNN and the Chinese CGTN channel for American Chinese relations in Arabic. Through the content analysis newspaper to study the topics contained in the US-Chinese relations with the two sites, from January 20/2021 to April 20/2021, using the comprehensive inventory method of the materials in the two sites. It was found from the study that the Chinese (CGTN) website relied on the (news) template as a basic art of editorial arts for displaying materials related to US-Chinese relations by 48.2%, while the (news report) website focused on ( CNN) American template with (news report) by 55%, followed by template (news) by 22%.The study found that the issue of the (Corona crisis) took the largest share for the (CGTN) website, with a percentage of 36%, while the American website (CNN) was interested in (democracy and human rights issues) by 45%. The most important framework that the Chinese CGTN website relied on is the “crisis framework” by 20%, and the CNN website relied heavily on the “conflict framework” by 28%, followed by the “human concerns framework” by 22%.

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Main Subjects

Radio and TV

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