Since September 11, Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity. But is news coverage in Arab countries all that different from American coverage? The Making of Arab News draws comparisons, including examples of Arabic news language and their English translations, to show how Arab news values have been Americanized and how these values are reflected in the language used in the Arab news.

Includes index and biographical references.

The Arab region : similarities and differences -- History of Arab news -- From interpersonal to mass communication -- News as a unionization tool -- Forms of control -- News agencies : the bureaucratic gatekeeper -- Foreign news -- Categorization of the Arab press : Rugh's typology revisited -- Evaluation of the typology -- The press and public opinion -- Arab newspapers abroad -- News values -- News is politics -- News is a social responsibility -- News is objective -- Prominence -- Newness -- The news genre -- Khabar, the new(s) genre -- MSA : the language of news -- The development of MSA -- Diglossia -- Myths about MSA -- Characteristics of news language -- Values in language -- Journalists as language custodians -- Objectivity in the news narrative -- Structure -- News versus views -- Attribution -- Hierarchy of textual representation -- Newness : tense and deictic.