Reporting the Arab-Israeli conflict: how hegemony works

Author
Liebes, Tamar
Publisher
Routledge
Year
1997
Language
English
Call Number
DS119.7 .L515x 1997
ISBN
0415154650
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
173
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Jewish-Arab relations -- Press coverage
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Israel -- History
Abstract

The author shows how journalists abandon their watchdog role, however unintentionally, to support 'our side', for example in the 1991 Gulf War. This book demonstrates how readers and viewers are also implicated by virtue of their expectations and their inability to decode the press critically. Examples are provided of how conflict may be otherwise depicted, for example by artists and front-line participants, as well as how media-literate readers can learn to read between the lines.