Bias in Newspapers. A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspapers' Reports about 'The Lady of Heaven'' Film
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ideology, news media, media bias, critical discourse analysisAbstract
Language is powerful since it can appeal to emotions and ideologies, and thus readers need to build a more objective judgment in the numerous news reports from different news media. It is completely beyond dispute that the media, in general, and movies, in particular, play a key role in the dissemination of information and the creation of realistic representations of everyday life through the effective use of language in social contexts. This article addresses media bias and language usage in various news reports based on the study's objectives. This paper analyses some forms of linguistic bias in different newspapers when reporting on the Lady of Heaven movie. Richardson's model (2007) has been used to analyse four newspapers articles from different countries and thus different ideologies. The results of the analysis revealed that each newspaper presents the movie according to their ideology and hence biased to its point of view.
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