Daily Reports
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Headlines of Newspapers and Websites "Amortize" RJ Losses Amounting to 24.6 Million Dinars
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanThe losses incurred by Royal Jordanian (RJ) over the past year, amounting to 24.6 million dinars, have disappeared from the headlines of daily newspapers and a number of news websites as part of the coverage of media outlets of t...
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News Sites Turn Article by American Writer, Including Inaccurate Opinions and Information, Into Story
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatIn professional traditions, opinion pieces are considered open space for writers to present opinions, explain events, and express prevailing trends in society. The professional problem is for an opinion piece to turn into a news it...
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Old Yemeni Story on "Teacher and Three Students" Crosses Borders and Turns Into Lebanese, Jordanian Incident
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatOn 16 April, two local news sites reported on a story, using the same headline "Teacher Suspects Conduct of Three Female Students in High School, Makes Shocking Discovery," without referring to the place and date of the incident, t...
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Two Tourists Die in Dead Sea…Incomplete Story and Analyses Without Information
AKEEDOn Wednesday, 19 April, and Thursday, 20 April, electronic sites published preliminary investigations into the death of two tourists at a hotel in the Dead Sea (American woman, 56) and (Romanian man, 76). Meanwhile, Issa Gammoh, secretary genera...
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Naked Persons in Deir Alla: Misleading Picture; Sites Tell Story Inaccurately
AKEED, Anwar Ziadat A security source has refuted news published on Sunday, 16 April, about four naked young men who constantly terrorize motorists in Deir Alla and try to seize their vehicles during the evening after appearing all of a sudden in the...
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French Journalist Guégan: Exposing Inaccuracies and Not Promoting Them Key Task of Journalists
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehFrench journalist Yann Gugan* delivered a lecture titled "Media Evolution" at the French Cultural Center on Tuesday evening, 11 April, in which he spoke about the importance of educating journalists about how to handle sources of ...
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Murder in Dahiyat al-Rasheed…Anonymous Sources and Haste in Publishing Produced Flawed Reporting of Details
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanSome media outlets fell into the trap of haste and depending on unreliable sources in reporting the details of a fire that claimed the life of a woman inside her house in Dahiyat al-Rasheed, west of the capital, Amman.At the begi...
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Facebook Could Tempt Media Outlets To Commit Professional Violations:
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehElectronic sites sometimes violate professional press standards on their pages on social media sites, mainly Facebook, while adhering to these principles on their official websites in covering the same story, thus confusing the pu...
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Vandalizing Speed Cameras…Media Outlets Depict Attacks on Public Property as Heroic Deeds
AKEED, Wasfi Khushman Press coverage of news about attacks on speed cameras in the governorates of the Kingdom has ranged from professional commitment in presenting news to legitimizing, and even urging, vandalism.Newspapers and news websites circula...
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Transfer of Jordanian Ambassador in Morocco…Media Outlets Turn Administrative Story Into Diplomatic Crisis
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanSome Moroccan media outlets hastened to pick up a Jordanian protocol affair and turned it into a news story about the eruption of a diplomatic crisis between Jordan and Morocco.On 2 April, Jordanian newspapers and news sites ran ...
