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Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Marda Dunsky
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Description for Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Paperback. As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, this work takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict. It also examines the media's responses to allegations of biased coverage. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 1KBB; JFD; JPS; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 635.
As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 through the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, she finds that the media omit two key contextual elements: the significant impact that U.S. policy has had and continues to have on the trajectory of the conflict, and the way ... Read more
As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 through the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, she finds that the media omit two key contextual elements: the significant impact that U.S. policy has had and continues to have on the trajectory of the conflict, and the way ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231133494
SKU
V9780231133494
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About Marda Dunsky
Marda Dunsky is a former Arab affairs reporter for the Jerusalem Post and editor on the national/foreign desk of the Chicago Tribune. She is on the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Dunsky's work on U.S. media coverage of the Middle East has been published in the Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, Arab Studies Quarterly, ... Read more
Reviews for Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This detailed work should be on the shopping list of all American correspondents moving to Jerusalem.
Simon Wilson Nieman Reports [Dunsky's] writing is perceptive and her arguments insightful JEWISH BOOK WORLD A comprehensive account of just how difficult it is to offer a 'fair and balanced' narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the United States-Israel relationship.
Mark LeVine ... Read more
Simon Wilson Nieman Reports [Dunsky's] writing is perceptive and her arguments insightful JEWISH BOOK WORLD A comprehensive account of just how difficult it is to offer a 'fair and balanced' narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the United States-Israel relationship.
Mark LeVine ... Read more