Syrian Media Dysfunction: Newspapers and Magazines (1)
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I don’t know how I should deal and write about The Syrian Media. The best description for it that it is A dysfunction Media. I always look at the national media for any country by looking to the Daily Newspapers published in any country and by its effect and people’s daily life and by a lot of parameters which can measure the quality and the need of people to this media.
In Syria we have only 4 newspapers. Three of them are a copy of each others and they are a public newspapers published by a governmental associations and they are expressing the government’s point of views and its look toward the international and local events. The only private newspaper – political newspaper – is owned by those who are closed to the inner circle of the government and express the views and interests of the business men who own it.
In Syria there are tens of weekly and monthly newspapers. None of them have an effect on the public opinion. You can describe them as a “low standard magazines and newspapers”. There is a real poverty in its design and low editorial standards. It is just a kind of a family media and it is far away from the organizational media.
