Medias Coverage Arab-Israe

by Karetzky and Norman Frankel

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944007228
• ISBN13: 9780944007228
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent articles about media coverage of Israel

There are quite a few excellent articles here. Jeane Kirkpatrick points out that in the first intifada, spin was heavily against Israel, and 80% of reported comments from American Jews were critical of Israel. Marvin Maurer shows how the media shape the news to fit an overall picture of Israel being important and wrong. He explains that the media often collude with rioters to produce stories. And he says that reporters need to cover Israel responsibly, as if it were Norway. We see how the Los Angeles Times gave 1667 column inches to Afghanistan in a year in which there were about a million casualties, and 3122 inches to Gaza and the West Bank in just two months during which there were less than a hundred casualties. Ed Koch also mentions how Arabs tailor their rhetoric and actions to the television crews that tape them. And he says, "This is not news. This is acting." Stephen Karetzky has a long and excellent analysis of the New York Times' propaganda war against Israel. It is shocking. There is also an example of terrible bias from another paper, "The Record," which serves Bergen County, New Jersey. Here, Eli Warach tells of The Record's comparisons of Israelis to Nazis (maybe that's not so bad when we read its defences of Kurt Waldheim and Martin Bormann). And he wonders why there are so many bigoted attacks in it on Israel. He asks what is bothering The Record, and what does it want? And sure, this question gets a possible answer from one of the Record's most vicious antizionists. In effect, it is that some people are liberals, and they do not like the Jewish god, so they take it out on Israel. But this answer does not help me. I am a liberal, and I can't stand the Jewish god, but my reaction is very different. I think the media are doing the whole world a big disservice by supporting thugs and terrorists. What will the ultimate effect of such lies be? I think we'll see some thugs get away with all sorts of aggression, until some people fight back, at which point there will be a great deal of unnecessary carnage. It would be fine if the media put a damper on violence, but in this case, it seems to be provoking it on both sides. I think that we need better media standards. It is as simple as that. And I strongly recommend this book.