Framing Israel: A personal tour of media and campus rhetoric

Why is it that citing facts often has little impact on discussion of the Jewish state? Framing Israel, a Personal Tour of Media and Campus Rhetoric offers an answer. This is an essential sourcebook--especially for readers who find mainstream media to be unreliable on controversial subjects and for college students and their families. Carefully researched and referenced, Framing Israel is also an engaging chronicle of one California professor's encounter with the language about Israel and with the country itself.

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Framing Israel: A personal tour of media and campus rhetoric

Why is it that citing facts often has little impact on discussion of the Jewish state? Framing Israel, a Personal Tour of Media and Campus Rhetoric offers an answer. This is an essential sourcebook--especially for readers who find mainstream media to be unreliable on controversial subjects and for college students and their families. Carefully researched and referenced, Framing Israel is also an engaging chronicle of one California professor's encounter with the language about Israel and with the country itself.

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Framing Israel: A personal tour of media and campus rhetoric

Framing Israel: A personal tour of media and campus rhetoric

by Cherryl Smith
Framing Israel: A personal tour of media and campus rhetoric

Framing Israel: A personal tour of media and campus rhetoric

by Cherryl Smith

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Why is it that citing facts often has little impact on discussion of the Jewish state? Framing Israel, a Personal Tour of Media and Campus Rhetoric offers an answer. This is an essential sourcebook--especially for readers who find mainstream media to be unreliable on controversial subjects and for college students and their families. Carefully researched and referenced, Framing Israel is also an engaging chronicle of one California professor's encounter with the language about Israel and with the country itself.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781618613431
Publisher: Rvp Press
Publication date: 01/22/2020
Pages: 242
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Berkeley to Jerusalem and Back

Chapter 2 War and PC

Chapter 3 Why Citing the Facts Has So Little Impact

Chapter 4 Media Slant and Rhetorical Frames

Chapter 5 Spotlight Fallacy: Frame of Only Conflict

Chapter 6 False Premise: Frame of Struggle Over Land

Chapter 7 Double Standard Fallacy: Frame of Refugees

Chapter 8 Bandwagon Fallacy: Frame of the Neighborhood Bully

Chapter 9 Faulty Analogy: Frame of the Cycle of Violence

Chapter 10 Poisoning the Well: Frame of the World’s Worst

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgements

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