The suppression of guilt : the Israeli media and the reoccupation of the West Bank / Daniel Dor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dor, Daniel, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Press coverage--Israel.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---West Bank.

Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects--Israel.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Daniel Dor analyses how Israeli press and television cover the conflict with the Palestinians. He argues that investigative reporting and dissent are routinely marginalised. Although the media are certainly not uniform, he finds that the stories they tell reflect their emotional identification with their readers and viewers.' Philip Schlesinger, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling 'Dor's book gives ample evidence of how the Israeli free press easily turned into an instrument of propaganda. ... Personally, the book helped me get over the frustration of seeing the reality I described totally marginalised in print.' Amira Hass, journalist for the Israeli daily Ha'aretz' Daniel Dor is a brave and non-conventional Israeli reader of his country's media in wartime. He is neither misled by state propaganda nor affected psychologically by Palestinian terrorism. He critically reviews Israeli media reports, exploring the way that they often adopt a siege mentality that combines victimhood with a collective demonisation of the Palestinians.'Dr. Menachem Klein, author of The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status In the three years that have passed since Operation Defensive Shield - three years marked by denial, deceit, rage and resentment - one fact remains uncontroversial: never, until the operation, had there been such a wide breach between the Israeli collective consciousness and international public opinion. Israeli scholar Daniel Dor measures this gap and concludes that Israeli society has withdrawn into an unprecedented sense of isolation and victimization - largely because of the role played by the Israeli media.Different media outlets provided their readers and viewers with significantly different perspectives on the operation, but they all shared a certain emotional attitude, not vis-a-vis the operation itself, but in relations to the global discourse of blame against Israel: they all projected an urgent, desperate, almost obsessive urge to suppress, to dismiss, to fend off guilt. Dor shows how analysing this type of reporting as an attempt to manufacture consent with the government and the military fails to capture its essential nature. He argues that, at its core, the coverage proposed alternatives for the construction of an Israeli identity. During the operation, all the different media converged around one assertion: being Israeli at this point in time feels like being accused by the entire world of something we are not guilty of. Basing his arguments on detailed analyses of media reports, Dor explores how the Israeli media work within the context of the global media and world opinion, rather than within the classic context of the nation-state -- and what it means for the future of the country.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 " Between the Hague and Jerusalem": An Introduction

2 Objective Reality and Intertextual Analysis: The Defi nition of Bias

3 Commitment, Despair and Confusion: The Newspapers

4 " Live from the Jenin Area": The Television News Broadcasts

5 " The Problem with Sharon's Plans": The Suppression of Intention

6 Manufacturing Identity: Remarks Towards a Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-113) and index.

ISBN:

9786611750619

9781849642538

1849642532

9781281750617

1281750611

9781435662391

1435662393

OCLC:

244567762