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The international arena witnessed lots of controversies about the role of the Anglo-American press in cov¬ering the controversy after what Egypt witnessed on the last 30th of June, 2013. In this context, the research prob¬lem tries to find out the extent of the contribution of the news sources in the Anglo-American press in shaping trends in press coverage to the events that took place in the Egyp¬tian domain since June 30 till now. In addition, it tackles the factors af¬fecting these sources, whether re¬lated to editorial policy in the news¬paper or to the agenda interests in international relations and attitudes of state policies towards the events taking place in Egypt. The four newspapers that are in¬cluded in this study are The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent and The Guardian Weekly. The research depend on two the¬ories which are Framing Theory and International News Flow Theory. The study use both quantitative and qual-itative analysis in order to fulfil the goals of the study. Results found that these news¬papers use the bias intentionally in covering news related to Third World countries events including Egypt to establish a stereotypic image of this world. Therefore, they concentrate on the negative events and ignore positives. They also intentionally use informative sources giving a false balance in coverage. The study re¬veals a schizophrenia showing in the contradictions between professional ethical basics adopted by these newspapers as a processing ap¬proach and a tool of presenting the other and between the actual ap¬proaches used by these newspapers especially with Third World countries like Egypt. This is what they tell us. Results showed that the newspapers can violate the profession standards. Although media claim to be ob¬jective, bias inevitably finds its way into the news.
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