Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict: How Hegemony Works

by Tamar Liebes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415154659
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/13/1997
Series:	Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies , #2
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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).

Table of Contents

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 freedom of expression with national loyalty and responsibility 5 Constructing success: How framing may be an instrument for pacifying a watchdog press 6 Us and them: Israeli and US coverage of the intifada and the Gulf War 7 Dominant readings and doomed resistance: A case study of one family's attempts to decode oppositionally 8 Socializing to dominant reading: How hawks and doves cope with conflict news and why the hawks find it easier 9 Reading upside down and inside out: How Israeli Arabs maneuver between the easy dominant and oppositional readings 10 Lying low - silent witnesses from the field: How Israeli soldiers reconcile the enemy with the images they brought with them 11 Them as us - Palestinians on Israeli cinema: How Israeli film-makers fail to transform television framing of the Palestinian 12 I and thou: How live broadcasts of Middle-East peace ceremonies wear out their welcome; Notes; Bibliography; Index