Egyptian Elites' Attitudes Towards International Policy Presentations in Arabic-Speaking Foreign Satellite Channels

Kamal Mahrez Ghaly, Muhammad; Salah El-din Hassan, Khaled

doi:10.21608/jkom.2023.315725

Egyptian Elites' Attitudes Towards International Policy Presentations in Arabic-Speaking Foreign Satellite Channels

Authors

¹ Faculty of Arts, Helwan University, Egypt

² Department of Radio & TV, Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, Egypt

10.21608/jkom.2023.315725

Abstract

The research aims to investigate Egyptian elites' estimations and their attitudes towards the features of international policies included in news processing in the Arabic-speaking foreign discourse. The field study sample included (300) respondents from the political and academic elites, in addition to managers of political and strategic studies centers and media leaders.
The study concluded that the performance of the elites is affected by the size of the permissible intellectual and cultural political role, the marginalization and distortion of their opinions in favor of power, and the confusion of the elite scene with the emergence of secular, socialist, then military and Islamic currents, along with youth movements. One of the most important features of the international system is validity of the theory of value and interests at the expense of moral and human controls, and the decline in the influence of traditional intellectual and political ideologies in favor of globalization and the movement of economy and trade.

Keywords

Elites. Opinion leaders. Expectancy value. International system. Foreign satellite TV

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