Impact of Negative Security News on Iraqi Satellite Channels Via Spreading Fear Among the Iraqi Masses

Abstract

The research aimed at identifying the impact that negative security news reflects in Iraqi channels on the Iraqi masses and provoking feelings of fear in it via indicating the sample to follow up on the security news, the problem of the research was represented by a main question with a group of questions that branched off, as well as eliciting assumptions adopted by the research derived from the theory of news frameworks that were employed to measure the impact on the Iraqi public regarding its exposure to negative security news.

The research was subjected (400) male and female research respondents within the methodological and scientific contexts to the multistage random sampling type, descriptive research and the survey method, also, a set of scientific research tools were used, as the most appropriate to achieve the research objectives, which are the interview, the questionnaire and the criterion, especially after applying the tests of validity and reliability and making sure that what it was designed to measure can be achieved, after processing the data with mathematical and statistical processes, the research reached a set of results, the most important of which are:

1. News bullet obtained the highest viewers from the Iraqi masses as a television program to follow up on security news.
2. The (security news) type obtained the highest percentage of the score from the sample as a preferred news type to be followed in Iraqi channels.
3. (Al-Sharqiah News) channel has the highest viewers rate for its negative security news.

There were indicative statistical differences of the realization of the research hypotheses via using the t-test