US Media Coverage of Saudi Arabia and US Officials' News Framing

This book presents an analytical and predictive news-framing model that could be used to examine a foreign policy of a national state toward another foreign state. By examining how US mainstream television outlets portrayed Saudi Arabia as a case, the author was able to explore how US foreign policy is made, and how US media outlets work to achieve this policy and the mechanism used to cover a particular foreign country. Moreover, this model can explain the type of the current political relation between two national states whether it is normal, in dispute, conflictive, or at war. Also, the model can predict whether a political relationship can change from one state to another at a given time. The coined name by the author for this news-framing is "Media Congruency Construction Frame." This book could be used by student of political science, international political communication, international relation, as well as journalism and media, in addition to politicians, media professionals, academicians, and the public to identify the ideological agenda that activates a particular foreign policy.