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Posted in American Politics by ppadin | 18 Comments » | Sep 17, 2009 |    

According to a recent poll conducted by ComputerWorld, about forty percent of the population believes that people can increase their political power by going online. Hence, many academics believe that people in western societies are becoming more technologically educated in order to gain more influence in t......

A Linguistic Study of News Values in the Press of Iran

Posted in Politic News by ppadin | 18 Comments » | Jun 10, 2009 |    

Introduction: Every event which is reported in the news, has gone through some kind of “gatekeeping” process. How does a journalist or an editor decide what is newsworthy and what is not? According to some media researchers, they refer to a set of so-called “News Values”. These are the cr......