Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict - 9781138864580

Name: Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict - 9781138864580
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

For journalists and reporters, the allegation of hegemonic practices constitutes a most serious condemnation. However, this author shows how hegemony is an almost unwitting process which supports the status quo and establishment. > 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. > Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: How hegemony works 2 Bedfellows: The evolution of a committed relationship over time 3 Foregrounding conflict: Broadcasting conflict and national integration - the Israeli context 4 Internalizing censorship: How journalists reconcile freedx