France 24 news reports on AlgeriaBetween professionalism and media bias

Abstract

This study deals with the coverage of news reports by France 24 on important events in Algeria during the years 2020 and 2021, which are represented in the popular movement, presidential elections, legislative elections, and human rights issues, were they candid and professional or biased in the media?

The study targets to know the tendency of France 24's coverage of the most important events in Algeria, the central figures and their characteristics, the map of the adopted sources, their arrangement,  area, the way they are presented, and knowing the indicators of bias in them.

The results showed that France 24, in its reports and coverage of important events in Algeria, relied on archival material by 31.81% as a source of information and this interferes with the specifications of the news report in terms of serious, immediate and current.

The results revealed that France 24 reports did not give equal spaces in its sources of information between opinion and the other opinion, which means the imbalance, and focused in its sources on opposition figures by 87.50%.The results reached that the indicators of media bias in France 24 reports on Algeria are the one-sided view by 21.62%, the news omission by 18.91%, the absence of facts to serve a specific point of view by 18.91%, and the use of highlighting and graphic elements with bias by 16.21%, all of which are incompatible with impartiality, professionalism and creativity that France 24 has always raised as its slogan.