Quarterly Journal of Political
Research in Islamic World

In this article we are studying the representation and visualization of TV’s foreign news about Palestine crisis and TV’s role in Tehran citizen’s conceptualization and visualization about the events of this territory. Our main goal is analyzing and assessing audience’s conceptualization about world’s events through TV’s foreign news. For reaching to this goal we used two methods consequently: content analysis and survey. At first, pictures and events that repeatedly have been broadcasted about the events of Palestine were analyzed. Then, Tehran citizen’s mind frames of crisis in this area were measured by using questionnaire and pictures. At last, the adaptation of TV’s foreign news contents and audience’s mind frame were studied. The results show that Tehran citizen’s point of view about the situation of Palestine and clashes factors, peaceful and stable situation, being hopeful, orientation and extent of violence is coordinated and aligned with TV’s foreign news. In other words, Tehran citizen’s attitude towards situation of Palestine, in most cases, in terms of type and severity of orientation, to a great extent, is coordinated and aligned with TV’s foreign news. So it seems that television has had relative success in shaping public opinion in foreign events area.