الفهرس 
Discourse, Ideology and News MediaOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This study applies Critical Discourse Analysis to Egyptian newspapers before and after the fall of Mubarak’s regime. The study aims at exposing the change in the discourse of the Egyptian newspapers. It also aims at showing the representation of the regime, the revolution, and the revolutionaries in Egyptian newspapers with different ideologies and political inclinations. The newspapers selected are Al Ahram, Algomhuria, Alshorouk, Al-masryel-youm, and Alwafd. The corpus consists of selected front-page headlines from these newspapers in the period from the 25th of January 2011 to the 24th of February 2011. These headlines are examined by using Develotte and Richniewski (2001)’s methodological framework for analyzing newspapers headlines and the material processes in Halliday’s concept of transitivity. The study hypothesizes: 1. State owned newspapers are expected to support Mubarak while in office, but they would turn against him after removal. 2. Opposition as well independent newspapers are expected to be unsympathetic with him before and after removal. The study proves that there has been a huge change in the representations introduced in the state-owned newspapers after the fall of the regime, but a little one in the independent and opposition party newspapers. After the fall of the regime, the state-owned newspapers went from one extreme to its opposite. They changed from praising and flattering the regime and attacking the revolutionaries to praising the revolutionaries and attacking the regime.