The current paper investigates the media coverage of recent crisis affecting Syria. It focused on an essential research topic that deals with an important issue which covers the Jordanian Newspaper study sample of the current events in Syria, as well it identified the mechanism, methods and coverage language that newspapers used in their coverage of events in Syria and identified the most press forms used by newspapers to cover events. Thus, the background of the study has a scientific professional nature. This crisis started in Tunis after decades of bureaucratic spontaneous protests and demonstrations which later spread to Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria known as Arab Spring Revolution. This research marked one of the first attempts to investigate the media press coverage for such event. Then it discussed the most famous theories used in the Science of media. This study is one of descriptive scanning studies based on content analysis style in media research. Three local Jordanian newspapers, which are Arai, Addustour and Alarabelyawm newspapers were used to identify the content of studying Jordanian newspapers and how to process news events in Syria. The right content of the media that analyze its shape and content to meet the research needs, which formulated as research questions or requirements according to a set of classifications and determinants. The informational analysis process was applied regularly, according to methodological and objective criteria. The result of the study added a simple path to the Arab library which needs more media researches, especially, in concerning with the studies of content analysis relating to wars, crises, conflicts and revolutions.
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