The Media Discourse in the Iraqi Press about the Events of the Popular Movement in October 2019 Analysis of a Speech for the Iraqi Al-Sabah Newspapers, And Al-Zaman – Iraq Edition

This study presents an analytical reading of the reality of the media discourse in the Iraqi press regarding the transfer of the events of the popular movement in October 2019 in various Iraqi governorates, and its importance derives from the importance and impact of the accompanying or implicit text on texts in general, including the press in particular, where this context represents the media policy of that newspaper in dealing With the event, it also hides behind it many situations and texts that were not explicitly told through the vocabulary of the news text, and the main research problem lies in showing how the communicator builds the press discourse related to the events of the popular movement in October 2019, as well as looking at the descriptions used by Iraqi newspapers regarding the terms That movement, because the media discourse has a great impact in changing the views and opinions of the public and the stereotyping of peoples regarding any issue, as this is through the discourse analysis approach according to the theory of modern critical analysis. The study takes a research sample on which it conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis in order to achieve its goals and answer its inquiries, Al-Sabah and Al-Zaman newspapers. Regarding Al-Sabah, as being affiliated with the Iraqi Media Network, which represents the public broadcasting station, and perhaps close to the government’s trends, as for choosing Al-Zaman newspaper as the most popular newspaper, and it was very close to the movement and carried the other point of view. Where the study reveals the secrets of news texts on the first page of each newspaper by reading vocabulary through a quantitative and qualitative analysis and reading language as a social actor through semantic and contextual meanings in the installation, as well as visual stimulus through the image, publication location and the size of the news.