Propaganda Content In Press Coverage Of Foreign Websites Arabic Speaking About The US Elections 2020

Abstract

The research focused on the nature of the propaganda contents published on the French website in Arabic (France 24) related to the last American elections that took place on 3/11/2020 AD.                                                                                                  

    It highlighted on the propaganda methods in press coverage and the arts of coverage, by dismantling the journalistic contents on the news site "France 24", and presenting them to the propaganda forms according to what was stipulated in the academic classifications and theoretical research that focused on the subject of propaganda and its form in which it appears.                                                                  

     Using the scientific classifications concerned with propaganda during the elections, various propaganda methods were extracted, the method of repetition and the news method ranked first, the method of personalization ranked second, the method of attracting attention in the third place, and the method of skepticism ranked fourth, while the rest of the other methods were distributed in the hierarchy according to the order   of  these methods, as well as the emergence of American propaganda activity in most of the published content on the site, which is one of the most important results reached by the researchers, and the research concluded with a logical and scientific conception of how the “France 24” news site deals with the topic of the American elections, and how it was covered this issue in propaganda, because press coverage during elections often moves away from objective coverage and approaches propaganda and political misrepresentation.