Summary: | The study has examined the similarities and differences in the coverage of two Palestinian news
agencies Ma’an and Palestinian Information Center (PIC) on the reactions of Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas’s regarding relocating the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The study has also aimed to explore the use of four function of framing by Entman 1993 in the
news stories of both agencies. Qualitative content analysis has been adopted to achieve the aim
of this study. The total sampling number was 9 news stories; 3 stories have been retrieved from
Ma’an, and the other 6 have been retrieved from PIC. The time frame has started from
December 5, 2017 which marked the day of informing Abbas by Trump’s decision to move the
Embassy until December 22 2017 which was a day after gaining a sweeping victory in UN by
President Abbas through a resolution that rejected the decision. Both of the news agencies were
supportive to President Abbas in their coverage and none of them has any negative coverage
about him. From the sampling number it can be seen that PIC has paid more attention for the
coverage of this issue than Ma’an. However, PIC has ignored the success of President Abbas
for achieving UN resolution against Trump’s decision. Morover, all the news stories has
included “define the problem” while excluded “diagnose causes” functions. However both
“make moral judgment” and “suggest remedies” have been included in all news stories of
Ma’an, and only half of news stories of PIC.
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