The influence of bias patterns prevailing in the handling of dialectical events on the formation of hostile attitudes among the elite towards this coverage

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer of Public Relations and Advertising at the Faculty of Media - Al-Ahram Canadian University

Abstract

This study was applied in two phases in two different time periods in terms of the political and social conditions that prevailed in Egypt. In each phase, a specific case was studied. The first study aimed to identify the academic elite’s trends towards media coverage of the events of the dismissal of the former president. It was applied to a sample of the academic elite consisting of 127 respondents, while the second study aimed to identify the academic elite’s trends towards media coverage of the project “The new Suez Canal” was applied to a sample of 160 respondents, bringing the sample size in the two studies to 287 respondents from the academic elite from faculties and departments of media in a number of public and private universities.
Despite the difference between the nature of the two events to which the study was applied, and the different periods of the two studies, some of the results of the two studies agree on several points and differ in other points.

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