Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict: How Hegemony Works (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Liebes, Tamar

ISBN 10: 0415154650 / ISBN 13: 9780415154659

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict: How Hegemony Works (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415154650
• ISBN 13: 9780415154659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tamar Liebes is Director of the Smart Institute of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author, with Elihu Katz, of The Export of Meaning (1993).