Behind of Luxury Smiles:
Analyzing The image of Bush
and Arab Crown Prince
“Q Mr. President, the Crown Prince raised the prospect of Saudi support for Iraq's oil embargo, and are you concerned that Arab nations might use oil as a -- try to use oil as a bargaining chip in the Middle East crisis?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, Saudi Arabia made it clear, and has made it clear publicly, that they will not use oil as a weapon. And I appreciate that, respect that, and expect that to be the case.” [1](2002/04/20)
This was one of the Bush’s answers to journalists’ questions in the Ranch of Crawford, Texas, after Meeting with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Although president in this press conference remarked that the most important points of this meeting were about the “peace” and its “stability in the Middle East and the world”, “the
war on terror”, “Israel and Palestine” and so on, but the wave of attitudes and critiques about the published photos of this visit showed that this event has been contributed more than the simple news that was spared about it! Nonetheless the photojournalism is one of the main tools of media for influencing on public opinions but the extended chance of Visual Analysis today, let people to think about the visual icons of news more than before.
Analyzing Visuals
Many studies were titled on visual analysis like Images of Welfare (Golden and Middleton, 1982), Visualising Deviance (Ericson, Baranek and Chan, 1987), Triumph of the Image (Mowlana, Gerbner and Schiller, 1992), and also in Mass Communication Research Methods (Hansen, Cottle, Negrine and Newbold, 1998) one section is devoted to the methods of analyzing “still and moving images”. In this section the authors remarked that “the four means of visual analysis labeled for convenience “distortion”, “symbolic”, “Semitic’, “epistemological” approaches have each deployed a number of methods and techniques”, and in explanation of Epistemological guarantee came that “ the analytical focus and interest is not on the veracity or ‘truthfulness’ of certain images and their forms of distortion analysis, nor on the symbolism of images and their role in the construction of particular story- related meanings, but rather the way in which such images help construct a sense of news as a distinct, and trustworthy, from of knowledge.”(Hansen and others, 1998: 213 and 214)
So with this background I want to begin my work on the journalistic photos that was published with the news of ‘President Bush Meeting with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia’, the photos that in formal view talk about the good relationship between U. S. A, and Saudi governments but behind of these luxury smiles and the climes of protection of Peace in the published news a history of events is existence! As “the project news epistemology, or ‘way of knowing’, pursued by news analysts concerns the generalized ‘objectivity’ climes of news.” (That reference: 214) I am to work on the massages that this verbal Document or record want to transmit and I want to point that how the related photos have been representing this event in the different words!
The Reflections
There are some of clear and agreeable things in this photo, they handed and laughing, they are walking or stand for getting photo, they don’t have any translator, and they are ready for showing off themselves for the newsmaker cameras (main photo) more than it the other things lick the light of sun day or the green colure of the grass that is in their background talk about a kind of happy situation; for the contributing the reflections of this events we could divide audience to three groups, in the names of American, Arab and global;
Many studies were titled on visual analysis like Images of Welfare (Golden and Middleton, 1982), Visualising Deviance (Ericson, Baranek and Chan, 1987), Triumph of the Image (Mowlana, Gerbner and Schiller, 1992), and also in Mass Communication Research Methods (Hansen, Cottle, Negrine and Newbold, 1998) one section is devoted to the methods of analyzing “still and moving images”. In this section the authors remarked that “the four means of visual analysis labeled for convenience “distortion”, “symbolic”, “Semitic’, “epistemological” approaches have each deployed a number of methods and techniques”, and in explanation of Epistemological guarantee came that “ the analytical focus and interest is not on the veracity or ‘truthfulness’ of certain images and their forms of distortion analysis, nor on the symbolism of images and their role in the construction of particular story- related meanings, but rather the way in which such images help construct a sense of news as a distinct, and trustworthy, from of knowledge.”(Hansen and others, 1998: 213 and 214)
So with this background I want to begin my work on the journalistic photos that was published with the news of ‘President Bush Meeting with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia’, the photos that in formal view talk about the good relationship between U. S. A, and Saudi governments but behind of these luxury smiles and the climes of protection of Peace in the published news a history of events is existence! As “the project news epistemology, or ‘way of knowing’, pursued by news analysts concerns the generalized ‘objectivity’ climes of news.” (That reference: 214) I am to work on the massages that this verbal Document or record want to transmit and I want to point that how the related photos have been representing this event in the different words!
The Reflections
There are some of clear and agreeable things in this photo, they handed and laughing, they are walking or stand for getting photo, they don’t have any translator, and they are ready for showing off themselves for the newsmaker cameras (main photo) more than it the other things lick the light of sun day or the green colure of the grass that is in their background talk about a kind of happy situation; for the contributing the reflections of this events we could divide audience to three groups, in the names of American, Arab and global;
For American Audience
This photo for American audience, it could be said that, don’t have any means just foreign policy and of course the interests of USA in Persian Golf, in the other word oil, my witnesses for this audience are the journalists points on the press conference that I bring it at the beginning of my article, when they talk about some worries about the decisions of Crown Prince in the future about the oil embargo!
For Arab Audience
But the Arabs reactions about this photo could be over the agreeable relations! My witnesses for this claim is the documents that Craig Unger worked on them (2004), in his book he regarded the relationships between USA and Saudi, during the eighties to September 11, he talked about the majority of “Wahhabis” in Saudi who “ see the United states as the Great Satan” (2004: 83), and they are not satisfied of deep relationships between their country and USA! Also Unger in this book bring some sample for showing this hatefully, for example the car bombe exploding in Riyadh, on November 13, 1995, that killed seven people – five of them Americans-!
Global Audience
The global audiences are the users of cyber space in internet, I mean. In this part I want to bring the other versions of this photo that are formed and emphasized differently.
The first photo emphasized on the Bush and Crown Prince’s hands, this sign pointed that this showing is regarded.
Second and third formed with adding some comments from Bush and Crown Prince, the second’s discourse is about a plan for the oil price and third talks about the culture of Arab nation in one hand and willing to join to it in bush’s idea, about the participation of women in the other hand.
Fourth case has official language, and talks about the oil.
The last case also emphasized on the oil as the undeniable thing for the American newspapers, after the visiting.
So it could be said that the deeper state of routine news is important for global audiences not the absolute information in the news!
Conclusion
“War on terror” according to bush’s comments was main case of discourses between him and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in his meeting, so we contributed this as the claim of news, but something like reactions in internet about the related photo show that this clime is not true, it means main part of audiences, as American journalists and internet’s users, don’t accepted it! The epistemological approach in analyzing studies images in the construction of knowledge, not simply in relation to particular news items or stories. The context of audience’s opinions and in fact reactions about the news is this knowledge, I mean.
The last reminding is this that Bin Laden as main target of the project of War on Terror has such popularity in Saudi country that “Several militant Islamic fundamentalist groups, claimed credit for Bin Laden and cited him as their major influence.” (Unger, 2004: 171)he Bin Laden in Bush’s comment about Saudi? If the main discourses in that meeting were about Peace so what they think about the main target? So this is the main question that we should think about it more.
References:
1- Ericson, R, Baranek, P, and Chen,J, 1987, Visualizing Deviance: A study of news organization, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
2- Hansen, Cottle, Negrine and Newbold, 1998, Mass Communication Research Methods, London, Palgrave.
3- Golding, p, and Middleton, S, 1982, Images of welfare, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
4- Mowlana, H, Gerbner and Schiller, 1992, Triumph of the Image, Oxford, Westview.
This photo for American audience, it could be said that, don’t have any means just foreign policy and of course the interests of USA in Persian Golf, in the other word oil, my witnesses for this audience are the journalists points on the press conference that I bring it at the beginning of my article, when they talk about some worries about the decisions of Crown Prince in the future about the oil embargo!
For Arab Audience
But the Arabs reactions about this photo could be over the agreeable relations! My witnesses for this claim is the documents that Craig Unger worked on them (2004), in his book he regarded the relationships between USA and Saudi, during the eighties to September 11, he talked about the majority of “Wahhabis” in Saudi who “ see the United states as the Great Satan” (2004: 83), and they are not satisfied of deep relationships between their country and USA! Also Unger in this book bring some sample for showing this hatefully, for example the car bombe exploding in Riyadh, on November 13, 1995, that killed seven people – five of them Americans-!
Global Audience
The global audiences are the users of cyber space in internet, I mean. In this part I want to bring the other versions of this photo that are formed and emphasized differently.
The first photo emphasized on the Bush and Crown Prince’s hands, this sign pointed that this showing is regarded.
Second and third formed with adding some comments from Bush and Crown Prince, the second’s discourse is about a plan for the oil price and third talks about the culture of Arab nation in one hand and willing to join to it in bush’s idea, about the participation of women in the other hand.
Fourth case has official language, and talks about the oil.
The last case also emphasized on the oil as the undeniable thing for the American newspapers, after the visiting.
So it could be said that the deeper state of routine news is important for global audiences not the absolute information in the news!
Conclusion
“War on terror” according to bush’s comments was main case of discourses between him and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in his meeting, so we contributed this as the claim of news, but something like reactions in internet about the related photo show that this clime is not true, it means main part of audiences, as American journalists and internet’s users, don’t accepted it! The epistemological approach in analyzing studies images in the construction of knowledge, not simply in relation to particular news items or stories. The context of audience’s opinions and in fact reactions about the news is this knowledge, I mean.
The last reminding is this that Bin Laden as main target of the project of War on Terror has such popularity in Saudi country that “Several militant Islamic fundamentalist groups, claimed credit for Bin Laden and cited him as their major influence.” (Unger, 2004: 171)he Bin Laden in Bush’s comment about Saudi? If the main discourses in that meeting were about Peace so what they think about the main target? So this is the main question that we should think about it more.
References:
1- Ericson, R, Baranek, P, and Chen,J, 1987, Visualizing Deviance: A study of news organization, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
2- Hansen, Cottle, Negrine and Newbold, 1998, Mass Communication Research Methods, London, Palgrave.
3- Golding, p, and Middleton, S, 1982, Images of welfare, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
4- Mowlana, H, Gerbner and Schiller, 1992, Triumph of the Image, Oxford, Westview.
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