Media students’ exposure to satellite news coverage of assassinations of correspondents in war zones and armed conflicts and its relationship to their attitudes towards the risks of the profession “The Israeli War on Gaza - Al-Aqsa Flood - A Model”

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Lecturer, Department of Radio and Television - Faculty of mass communication Al-Azhar University.

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The study aimed to identify the impact of satellite news coverage of the assassination of correspondents, applying it to the Israeli war on Gaza - the Al-Aqsa Flood - and the difficulties and risks they face during television coverage in war zones and armed conflicts, and the impact of this coverage, with its cognitive, behavioral and emotional effects, in shaping the attitudes of media students towards the risks of the profession. It was applied to a random sample (400) individuals of media students from Egyptian public and private universities. The most important results were that the most prominent challenges and obstacles facing the correspondent are "targeting him with killing, threats or kidnapping" at a rate of 85.5%. The most important cognitive effects resulting from the study sample's follow-up of news coverage of the assassination of correspondents in the Israeli war on Gaza were "My knowledge of the risks of correspondents working in war zones increased" with an arithmetic mean of (2.67). The most important emotional effects were "sympathy with correspondents working in war zones and armed conflicts" with an arithmetic mean of (2.45). The most important trend of the study sample towards the future of the profession of television correspondent in light of the increasing rate of assassinations of correspondents in the Israeli war on Gaza, is that “the importance and profession of correspondent will increase, especially in war zones, in the coming periods” with an arithmetic mean of (2.13).

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