Attitudes of the Egyptian academic elite towards the Arab news channels' handling of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis

Salah Youssef, Mohamed

doi:10.21608/jkom.2022.253089

Attitudes of the Egyptian academic elite towards the Arab news channels' handling of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis

Author

Mohamed Salah Youssef

Radio and Television Department, Faculty of Media and Communication Arts, 6th of October University, Egypt

10.21608/jkom.2022.253089

Abstract

The study attempted to identify the attitudes of the Egyptian academic elite towards the Arab news channels’ handling of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis. The study relied on the survey method, and an in-depth interview was conducted with 40 members of the Egyptian academic elite in the fields of media, political science, and economics during November of 2021. The study in its theoretical framework on the entrance to conflict management, and the study reached a set of important results, including the interest of the academic elite in the periodic follow-up of news channels, whether Egyptian or Arab channels, and the most prominent of these channels at the Egyptian level is the Extra News channel, followed by the Nile Channel for News and Then Al Gad news Channel, At the level of Arab news channels, attention was focused on Al-Arabiya and Sky News channels in the first place, followed by the Qatari channels Al-Jazeera, BBC Arabic and Al-Sharq Bloomberg. In order to help him form a true picture of the nature of what is happening in Ethiopia, away from intimidation or underestimation of information, some also put forward the idea of balance in providing information by hosting experts and specialists from various parties concerned with the issue, including opposing voices.

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