Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of English and Persian News

News has played a vital role in peoples’ and governments’ decision making. Assuch, the source and reliability of the news are of equal or even more significancethan the news itself and that makes reporting the news a challenging and criticalprofession. Accordingly, investigating how news is reported is essential andfurther it would be illuminating to see how different news reporting organizationsand cultures report their news for their readers. This study compared the Persianand English news to explore the similarities and differences between twolanguages. Utilizing Schematic Structure of Editorials (Based on van Dijk, 1992,1995) to analyze the data, the researcher found significant similarities anddifferences between Persian and English in terms of genre of news.