A Linguistic Study ofews Values in the Press of Iran

Introduction:

Every event which is reported in theews, has gone through some kind of "gatekeeping" process. How does a journalist or an editor decide what isewsworthy and what isot

According to some media researchers, they refer to a set of so-called "News Values". These are the criteria which enable them to determine whether a "News Story" is followed up in the first place and then whether it makes it in to theews, competing against all the other possible items.

News values are those professional codes used in the selection, construction and presentation ofews stories in corporately produced mainstream press and broadcasting.

News values are a result of the productiveeeds of industrializedews corporations. It is clear that people who work for such corporations will display mixed ambitions, allegiances, politics and abilities as individuals. Within the corporation they are subjected to an extensive division of labor. Beyond the corporation there are its competitors, and the occupational ideology of the journalist and the broadcasting profession.

Within these contexts,ews values operate to produce a standard product out of the contributions of all such people, practices and beliefs.

Language, as the main material ofews, is the main subject of linguistics so it is obvious that linguists are eager to work on the process of broadcasting. Recentely many of the well-known linguists such asoam Chomsky (1988), Roger Fowler (1991), Van Dijke (1998), Allan, Bell (1991),orman Fairclough (1992, 1995, 2003), Guy Cook (1992), Michael Hoey (2001), Paul Chilton (2004) and Marina Sbisa (2005) … have been working on a so-called subject of "language of theews" and the term "News Values" is of great importance.

Edward S.Herman andoam Chomsky (1988) in their pioneer book of "Manufacturing Consent" have mentioned fiveews filters and they believe that these filters areow controlling all broadcasting process in the west. This research is going to introduceews values and especially twelveews factors, mentioned by Johan Galtung and Mary Ruge, which are the most famous list ofews values around the world and to see if these factors are working in Iranian press.

Theoretical Discussion:

there iso suggestion, of course, that journalists and editors refer to a list pinned on the wall of the office, but, rather, that they unconsciously measure a potentialews item against these criteria.umerous attempts have been made over the years to pin downews values more specifically. But it is hard to collate these into a hard and fast list of values, because different studies have approached the whole idea from different standpoints, using different assumptions and terminology. One of the best known lists ofews values is supplied by Johan Galtung and Marie Ruge. Any media analyst’s discussion ofews values will always refer to their list, which was initially intended for the coverage of interna