A Dialogue with a Media Text (Haikal’s Text about Jamal Hamdan)

Abstract

In a literary text, the concept of a dialogue may be clear with its aspects that may be present, as well as multifaceted horizons [deep meanings]. On the one hand, we may have a dialogue with a literary text with regards to its formations, basis and pillars; namely, its linguistic weaving, location, time and even man. However, on the other hand, dialoguing with a media text remains a different case, even a cause that recalls a number of unresolved dilemmas, which, in fact, stem from the purpose of the text (in its broad sense), in addition to its intellectual or aesthetic contributions, as well as materialized or envisioned limits.

There are several crucial facts that should be taken into account when having a dialogue with a media text.

 A media text is functional in terms of its end and language. It assures conveying information, or mental or emotional persuasion, or both of these, without expressional redundancy, which begs the question: To what extent does a media text comply with its writing style within the structures of media writing (news stories and opinions)? Has this media - in case it is a news story - made a way towards the circle of the second essential type (opinion), so that it will enrich an opinion, make a position greater in itself or perhaps lean towards a specific stance in order to twist a news story and thereby, deviate it from its set objective role?

 It is also perhaps a paradox that in the opposite case, i.e., for an article to be aided by a news story, it is deemed as an additional desirable piece of information, or even a beat exclusive only to the structure of the article, whereas in the other case, where a news story is aided by an article’s tools, it is an accusation that everybody makes sure to be innocent of.

 The paper will try to research these concepts in a way that would clarify its aspects, as well as track its ends and identify its tools' success through an applied procedure of a media text by Professor Mohammad Hasanin Haikal (1923-2016), which is a dialogue that essentially depends on the conditions of the type, as well as the foundations of writing editing based on conventional scientific conditions. As for the treatment method, it primarily depends on questioning the text components, as well as hypotheses, representing its realities and anticipating its outcomes.