The perception of media images in the print media

In this article we will examine the mechanism of installation of what semiologists communication specialists and language scientists commonly call media image. In this perspective our study tries to analyze according to a corpus proposing an image representing a woman slaughtered in pain through the front page of ten international newspapers. Starting from the Algerian context dated September 23 1997 the speculations and interpretations both iconic and linguistic that we have reached have allowed us to verify the postulate according to which the implementation of compositional strategies the modalities of deciphering of scripting of the effect of meaning and of the communicational aims that can be operative for the propagandist knowing how to imagine according to a tacit contract the social representations of others are paradoxically inoperative for the lay reader destined only for informational consumption without being able to discern the slightest inadequacy in the montages effectively combined from falsified sources. Keywords: Image Modality Perception Propaganda.