When The Koran Meets The Goddess Of Liberty

The contest for the power of speech runs through the development of human society. With the current of globalization, the mass media's dependency to power and the subjectivity of power, with the help of the modernization of the technology, bring the influence into play in the worldwide. The mass media which represents different symbols of power, always attempts to overcome the obstacles of space and time, to pursue the hegemony of news communication.The Middle East is located in the conjunction of the three cultures, and is covered with local mass media and cross-border communication, as well it attacts so much attention in the world because of international politics and economy crisis. In the circumstances of international communication monopolized by Cultural Imperialism, a new situation of the contest for the power of speech emerges as a result of special politics environment and culture background, and offers us an interesting instance and special view.In the confrontation of news communication in Middle East, CNN, who represents of the power media of American, at the position of defensive at times, can not control the power of speech firmly. Whereas Aljazeera, who represents of the local Arabic mass media often rely on the dialogue flatform of "objective and equity" to gain the partly victory, and threats the hegemony of American news communication in this region. This situation shows on these aspects: the objective and impartiality of the American reports are suspected, running of news audiences, the inferiority in the contest for news sources, losing the control of the agenda setting, and so on.Through the content and quantitative analysis on the international network of the two mass media, This thesis catches the sight of that the mass media of America have deflections in the operation of the cross-culture communication, the choice of...