Remediation of the Administrative Corruption Issues in accordance to the Theory of News Frames

Abstract

Media, especially press plays an important role in fighting corruption and tackling this phenomenon, which has become widespread in our society, through its effective role in raising awareness of the seriousness of spreading of corruption of all its forms in society.
All international conventions and agreements stress the necessity of the role of media and its importance in the light of corruption. All countries also commit themselves to the necessity of guaranteeing the freedom of media and the circulation of information and preparing it as a prerequisite for activating the People’s Control Mechanism and supporting measures and means to prevent and combat financial and administrative corruption more actively and effectively.
Corruption has become worse in Iraq and has become the talk of the street, especially after the events of April 2003 when the country became under foreign occupation and the collapse of its governmental institutions so that corruption issues are strongly imposed on the agenda of all media and have high follow-up rates locally and globally. Characteristics of media practice of this phenomenon at the local level in order to know the features and characteristics of the press treatment of this phenomenon.
The aim of this research is to identify the most important features and characteristics of the Iraqi press to address the issues of administrative corruption and to identify the differences and agreements in the remediation of Iraqi newspapers. In the light of the theory of news frameworks in terms of determining the frameworks of these issues, the framework of internal and external reasons, the framework of its moral evaluations, the framework of proposed solutions to combat this phenomenon up to the general results of the study in order to be used in future studies