TITLE:
The Civil and Political Rights in the Press Discourse of Britain’s Most Prominent News Websites
AUTHORS:
Hatem Abu Zaydeh, Ibrahim Saqer Alzaeem, Hisham S. A. Almeghari
KEYWORDS:
News Websites, Civil Rights, Political Rights, Press Discourse-Britain
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.13 No.2,
April
20,
2023
ABSTRACT: This article deals with the civil and political
rights in the press of the news websites, aims to identify the civil and
political rights in the press discourse of the top news websites and newspapers
in Britain. Between March-August 2022, a tool
that includes the civil and political rights was prepared under the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the UN General
Assembly on December 16, 1976 and became effective on March 23, 1976. In order
to ensure the validity and reliability of the tool, Test-retest and Factor
Analysis were conducted and the needed changes were applied, while to obtain
the results; frequency, averages and percentages were utilized. Results have
shown that the right to life spearheaded the percentages by (18.83%), followed
by the right to equality (15.18%)—which is a civil right; then the economic
rights (12.04%); and the social rights (10.34%). On the other hand, the
political rights like the right of protest and peaceful demonstration (1.39%),
the right to stand for elections (0.99%) and the freedom of association (0.57%)
obtained the less percentages.