The public's dependence on the Egyptian newspapers as a source of information about the crisis of the Panamanian ship M Ever Geffen

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Instructor at the Department of Journalism and Publishing, Faculty of Mass Communication - Al-Azhar University

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to find out the extent to which the public sample of the study relied on the media in following up the crisis of the Panamanian ship Emever Geffen
The research used the theory of dependence on the media, and the researcher sought to answer a number of questions, the most important of which are: What is the extent of the public’s dependence on the media in following up on the crisis of the Panamanian ship Emever Given? And knowing the cognitive, emotional and behavioral effects resulting from the study sample’s dependence on Egyptian newspapers in its follow-up to the crisis of the Panamanian ship Emever Geffen
The research relied on the survey method through the use of the questionnaire tool, where the field study was conducted on a random sample of 384 of the Egyptian public, distributed over four governorates, namely Cairo governorate representing the Greater Cairo region, Alexandria governorate representing coastal cities, Gharbia governorate representing Lower Egypt, and Assiut governorate Representative of the Upper Egypt, and among the most important results that were reached, those who depend on the Internet in their follow-up to the crisis of the Panamanian ship M Ever Given came in the first place with a rate of 77.6, and the Egyptian newspapers came in second place with a rate of 57.6% in terms of the extent of the public’s dependence of the study sample on the media In their follow-up to the Panamanian ship crisis, it was also reached to prove the validity of the hypothesis that there is a statistically significant correlation between the extent to which respondents follow up on the crisis of the Panamanian ship M Evergiven in the Egyptian newspapers and the effects resulting from this dependence
 
 
 
 

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