THE PRESS COVERAGE OF THE ELECTION COMPAIGN IN IRAQ IN

	THE PRESS COVERAGE OF THE ELECTION COMPAIGN IN IRAQ IN "AL-SABAAH ELECTORAL" SUPPLEMENT FOR 30/11/2005 -11/12/2005
AL-TAQANI
Article 1, Volume 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 38-48
Abstract
Well-trusted press coverage of election campaigns put press at advanced place in many countries around the world. Elections represent a real challenge for all media and its role in expressing the election choices for the voters, supervising the electoral process to check if the election is free and fair and explaining to voters the different policies adopted by all political parties and coalitions. The research is about the press coverage of the electoral campaigns of the competing parties and coalitions in the election for the Iraqi National Assembly held in 15/12/2005, which conducted by the Sabaah newspaper (published by the Iraqi Media Network) in its "AL- Sabaah Electoral " supplement. The research units are specified by the journalistic arts which are widely used in the supplement, and research categories include subjects deal with the activities of the Iraqi High Commission for Election, competition between the competing parties, raising election awareness and election propaganda. By submitting a field study about the press coverage of the election campaign in Iraq, the research aims to submit a scientific and precise perspectives about the kind of subjects that Iraqi press took interest in during its coverage of the election campaign.

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THE PRESS COVERAGE OF THE ELECTION COMPAIGN IN IRAQ IN "AL-SABAAH ELECTORAL" SUPPLEMENT FOR 30/11/2005 -11/12/2005