Overview
Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors focus on television news, illustrating major differences in the way Israelis and Palestinians are represented, including how casualties are shown and the presentation of the motives and rationales of both sides. Combining these findings with extensive audience research involving hundreds of participants from the USA, Britain and Germany, More Bad News From Israel is a masterclass in understanding how people perceive the conflict thanks to media bias.
Full Product Details
Author: Greg Philo ,
Mike Berry
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.672kg
ISBN: 9780745329796
ISBN 10: 0745329799
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 08 April 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This superb study ... is extensive in scope, and scrupulously fair. It will be a landmark. --Edward S. Herman, co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent [The book] covers a lot of ground in a clear and readable manner and is particularly good at airing different views about the Arab-Israeli conflict. --Professor Avi Shlaim, St Antony's College, University of Oxford Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often dangerously superficial. Bad News from Israel is a strong contribution to scholarship and public debate. --John D.H. Downing, Director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University Just about everything that we know about Israel/Palestine comes to us from our television screens. Bad News from Israel reveals remarkable levels of ignorance about what and why things are as they are. What's more, the analysis offered here strongly suggests that the media are intimately linked to the perpetuation of this unhappy situation. --Professor Fra
Author Information
Greg Philo was an activist academic and Professor of Communications and Social Change at Glasgow University. He co-founded Glasgow University Media Group, where he fearlessly uncovered news bias and power in the media. He co-authored Bad News for Labour, More Bad News from Israel and Bad News for Refugees, amongst other books. Mike Berry is Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham and, with Greg Philo, is the author of Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories (Pluto, 2006) and More Bad News from Israel (Pluto, 2011).
