Media investment in events: Example of football games and children kidnapping

Abstract

During the important and successive changes in the media practice, this article attempts to put light on media event investment practice that has a commercial achievement. This practice affects the objectivity of media institutions, the credibility of news and information, the ability of public to reproduce information, events and their judgments and perception of reality.
The research focused on two categories types of different events which we supposed that media invested in them, and then we worked to verify the validity of this supposition by realising an analytical studies and tracking the media treatments of the eminent football games and the child kidnapping phenomenally over the last ten years