Name Essays (3422 words) - Geography Of Asia, Middle East

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Analysis of two ideologically counterpoised newspapers Introduction On September 14, 2006, an event occurred in which, Patriarch Sfeir met with the President of the Lebanese Journalist's Syndicate Mr. Karam, who had been accompanied by a delegation several members of the Executive Association Council. This meeting entailed a dialogue between the delegation and the Patriarch regarding the situation in Lebanon, specifically, the conditions of the post-July 2006 war. The next day, various newspapers and magazines published this event in various ways expressing contrasting political or ideological stances. Two ideologically counterpoised newspapers that reported on this event include the Al Akhbar - a leftist daily newspaper in Lebanon, and La Revue du Liban - a French weekly magazine. This paper evaluates and describes how these two newspapers handled and reported this political controversy; how they treated the opinion of the Patriarch with regards to the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, and what the handling and reporting of this event show about the ideological attitudes and stance of each newspaper. In this paper, the discourse used in La Revue du Liban and in Al Akhbar is analyzed and criticized based on the discourse analysis approach by Fairclough ADDIN CSL_CITATION "citationItems" : [ "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : "author" : [ "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Fairclough", "given" : "N.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : "date-parts" : [ [ "2005" ] ] }, "number-of-pages" : "121", "publisher" : "Longman Publishers", "publisher-place" : "New York", "title" : "Critical discourse Analysis. The Critical Study of Language", "type" : "book" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/ documents/?uuid=2b7db57f-7868-444a-8e9a-95477f82edc0" ] } ], "mendeley" : "formattedCitation" : "(Fairclough)", "manualFormatting" : "(Fairclough 122)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Fairclough)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Fairclough)" }, "properties" : "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Fairclough 122). Analysis of how La Revue du Liban reported the event La Revue du Liban is a weekly French newspaper that is sold in more than thirty countries. The article reporting the event begins by directly quoting Mr. Karam who had represented the journalist's in Lebanon at the meeting with Sfeir. He is quoted speaking in a reverent way, suggesting that he respected the Patriarch. It can be inferred that La Revue du Liban offers evidence of being anti-Israel and pro-Sfeir. The article offers Mr. Karam a lot of space because of his standing as the editor-in-chief of the magazine. He is quoted in more than 150 words of the more the 900 words that make up the entire article ADDIN CSL_CITATION "citationItems" : [ "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : "author" : [ "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Noe", "given" : "N.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "La Revue du Liban", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : "date-parts" : [ [ "2006", "9", "15" ] ] }, "title" : "Voice of Hezbollah, the statements of Say yed Nasrallah", "type" : "article-newspaper" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=674807bd-6578-4d28-8797-28f16b5814da" ] } ], "mendeley" : "formattedCitation" : "(Noe)", "manualFormatting" : "(Noe 6)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Noe)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Noe)" }, "properties" : "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Noe 6). The metaphor that is used in the article to describe the Patriarch and Bkerke highlights the magazines ideological stance, which shows a lot of respect for the Patriarch and the place. Attitudes are mainly displayed by the words used as well as the facts selected by the magazine to describe the July war ADDIN CSL_CITATION "citationItems" : [ "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : "author" : [ "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Revue du Liban", "given" : "", "non-dropping-particle" : "La", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "La Revue du Liban", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : "date-parts" : [ [ "2006", "9", "16" ] ] }, "title" : "On receiving the Council of the Journalists\u201f Association, Monsignor Sfeir stated: \u201cIsrael is the enemy and Lebanon will be the last Arabic state to conclude peace with Tel-Aviv.\u201d", "type" : "article-newspaper" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=b3b8f4bb-08de-4ba6-bb7f-5f6c4fe82abe" ] } ], "mendeley" : "fo rmattedCitation" : "(La Revue du Liban, \u201cOn Receiving the Council of the Journalists\u201f Association, Monsignor Sfeir Stated: \u2018Israel Is the Enemy and Lebanon Will Be the Last