TITLE:
Media Coverage of Crime in Palestine (Wafa and Watan Models) during the Year 2016 Comparative Analytical Study
AUTHORS:
Ibrahim T. I. Ukka, Shariful Islam, Miraida Priscilla Bruzual Marmo
KEYWORDS:
Wattan News Agency, Wafa News Agency, Crime, Content Analysis, Palestine
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.4,
April
30,
2019
ABSTRACT: The study aimed at identifying the coverage of Palestinian websites in the West Bank for crime issues by analyzing the content of the news sites of the Palestinian News Agency WAFA and Watan News Agency during 2016 in the governorates of Nablus, Bethlehem and Hebron. By comparing the two sites through several categories, the study focused solely on homicide, so that the cases were divided into murder (criminal), deadly security events. The WAFA website has relied on official sources for its coverage of crime issues in full. Wattan News Agency has been better positioned to use electronic features in websites than WAFA. A large proportion of the news items were classified as domestic materials, leading to a lack of visibility on crime issues. Only the two sites published only minor news; there was a lack of follow-up of cases of crimes after a period of time, and the political game in the sites in the impact on the quality of news materials.