The news treatment of Epidemic diseases in satellite channels:

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor of Media / Zagazig University

Abstract



Epidemic diseases are considered a global security issue that threatens human life and stability, History is full of many previous experiences of the widespread spread of pandemics and epidemics across countries ,and  The Corona epidemic, “Covid 19” was the worst humanitarian crisis the world has known since World War II,  The global pandemic has contributed to creating a reality , documentaries are considered  one of the most important means of communication that can deal with crises and thorny and intertwined issues, which makes them the most appropriate to address the pandemic, treat it in the media, and put it on the arena of public opinion, as documentary films record and document events and facts from the social, political and cultural environment and use them as a historical document to record the event.
The research problem was to find the  how documentaries have dealt with satellite news channels on their sites on YouTube, as one of the interactive means of communication for the global pandemic, Covid 19, and the impact of these news treatments in arranging the agenda of the interests of satellite news channels and the public towards issues and topics of the Corona pandemic, and the interference of these The study is within the descriptive studies based on the survey method using the content analysis tool for an intentional sample of documentary films, available through the YouTube channels of the Arab news channels for my channel (Al Arabiya News, Al Jazeera Documentary). The
number of films analyzed reached 14 documentary films, by relying on the theory . of priority order "setting the agenda", where the researcher helped to prioritize the interests of satellite news channels towards urgent issues of the pandemic, and clarified the factors affecting the setting of the agenda such as the nature of the issues and their topics and their proximity to the viewer   The COVID-19 pandemic topics raised by sample documentaries are analyzed ..
The results of the study resulted in a convergence of the rates of dependence of the channels under study on the two forms of reporting and analytical analysis, which is consistent with the goals of documentary films that aim to establish and analyze reality to help understand it and prioritize the interests of the masses towards it. Documentary films also supported their live informational sources of interviews, eyewitnesses and investigations Television with inanimate sources such as graphics, charts, maps, archive and documentary images to activate its message and content and make it more realistic, and the study also demonstrated the direction of documentary films to present the issues and topics of the Covid 19 pandemic by relying on certain methods of treatment, to prioritize the public's interests towards those issues and topics. Health issues and economic and technological issues. As for the comprehensive reporting treatment, it was used more with
security and political issues, while support and advocacy treatment was used with social and humanitarian issues.
The study also demonstrated the positive relationship between the types of pandemic issues and the documentary treatment method used to treat the issue, as the comprehensive reporting treatment pattern was one of the most used treatment methods to address all pandemic issues, while the pre-emptive treatment was used extensively with the documentary events of health and scientific issues, as the results revealed The intensity of watching documentary films, as well as the intensity of the audience's use of subscribers of YouTube channels for the tools to interact with the content available through the satellite news channels on YouTube, the priorities of the public's interests also coincided with the priorities of the interests of the satellite news channels on the importance of health, treatment and humanitarian issues of the Covid 19 pandemic, while the priorities of the religious interests of the public differed With th channels that paid attention to the political and international dimensions of the pandemic, especially the Al-Jarra documentary channel, and the structures used in documentary films varied, which made them multiple and rich, Al-Jazeera Documentary relied more on the construction of the commentary and the construction of the character, while the Al-Arabiya channel relied on the classic constructivism, and it has adopted a Films based on the method of cutting in these meetings and
the transition to graphic narration, as the films in the two channels relied o  constructivism based on experts and specialists in the medical and economic fields to monitor the repercussions of the phenomenon.
 
 

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