Egyptian elite attitudes toward the news coverage of armed attacks after the June 30 on Arab TV:

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Lecturer, Department of Radio and Television, Faculty of Information, Beni Suef University.

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The current study aims to measure the attitudes of the Egyptian elite towards news coverage of armed attacks after June 30 in the Arab satellite channels. In its theoretical framework, the study relied on the two approaches to conflict management and societal threats. The study relied on the survey method. The results of the study confirmed the high rates of follow-up of the Egyptian elite on news coverage of armed attacks after June 30 by Arab satellite channels, and the results demonstrated that there is no relationship between the quality of the Egyptian elite (academic, media, and political) and their level of exposure to that news coverage. Al-Arabiya has occupied the forefront of the most important satellite channels that the Egyptian elite is keen to follow its programs and news bulletins, followed by the Egyptian news channel, then the BBC Arabic channel. The study monitored the reasons for the Egyptian elite following up on the news coverage of armed attacks on Arab satellite channels after June 30, where the identification of the perpetrators of the bombings came first, and in second place came the identification of the causes of those armed attacks, followed by the attempt to present some proposals to confront these armed attacks.  Nearly half of the study sample from the Egyptian elite (academic, media, and political) believe that the news coverage of armed attacks after June 30 on Arab satellite channels affects Egyptian public opinion to a large degree, while 28% of them think that it affects Egyptian public opinion to a moderate degree. And the lowest percentage of them thinks that 8 do not affect Egyptian public opinion in a low degree.

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