The death of Reality & Rise of Image in the Media War against Syria (2011-2020)

Abstract

This study aims at using the indicative analytical method on a sample of news bulletins and political talk shows displayed on several Arabic and Foreign but Arabic-speaking channels over the last nine years (2011-2020). It also aims at showing the growing role of image in the present time which has become evidence of the power and the expanding influence of  media in  contemporary life. It has stopped being a mediator between us and the reality and material things around us, to become a producer of a reality that gets  importance and status more than the referential reality itself to which the image should  refer to. However, the reality of this referential reality is now measured by how much it is close and conforming to the image. This led to a process of stereotyping that aims at re-arranging not only historical events but also the living reality, as the findings of the study show, which necessarily entails marginalizing all that does not accord with that perception.