دور الفضائيات الإخبارية في تشكيل معارف واتجاهات الجمهور اليمني نحو القضايا والأزمات العربية

Abstract

The Role of News Satellite Channels on Formation of Knowledge and Attitudes toward Arab Issues and Crisis. Study on Lebanese Political Crisis under Perspectives of Knowledge Gap and News Framing. This study sought to know the role of news satellite channels (Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlAlam) on formation of Yemeni audience knowledge (General and in-depth) about Lebanese political crisis in the light of Knowledge Gap and Framing theories, and to measure variables which may weaken or strengthen audience knowledge and attitudes toward the crisis, by analyzing news bulletins in Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlAlam Sat. Channels which have been selected to represent three different attitudes toward Lebanese political crisis. Study had been applied on sample of (400) Yemeni audience, the results showed that: Yemeni audience showed more acceptance to news frame which produced by AlArabyia which focused on Lebanese political crisis is a military coup implemented by Hizbuallah against Lebanese constitutional legitimacy under justifications of governmental decisions which rely on his armed power with Iranian and Syrian support which may lead Lebanon to abyss. Which mean that respondents had a negative attitudes against stances of Hizbuallah.