Media and political conflict : news from the Middle East
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Media and political conflict : news from the Middle East
Cambridge University Press, 1997
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The news media have become the central arena for political conflicts today. It is, therefore, not surprising that the role of the news media in political conflicts has received a good deal of public attention in recent years. Media and Political Conflict provides readers with an understanding of the ways in which news media do and do not become active participants in these conflicts. The author's 'political contest' model provides an alternative approach to this important issue. The best way to understand the role of the news media in politics, he argues, is to view the competition over the news media as part of a larger and more significant contest for political control. The book is divided into two parts. While the first is devoted to developing the theoretical model, the second employs this approach to analyse the role of the news media in three conflicts: the Gulf war, the Palestinian intifada, and the attempt by the Israeli right wing to derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Rules of Combat: 1. The structural dimension: the struggle over access
- 2. The cultural dimension: the struggle over meaning
- 3. Media influence and political outcomes
- Part II. The Contests: 4. Political movements and media access: the struggle against the Oslo Accord
- 5. Competing frames of the Oslo Accord: a chance for peace or a national disaster?
- 6. Controlling the media in insurrections and wars: the intifada and the Gulf war
- 7. The contest over media frames in the intifada: David versus Goliath
- 8. The cultural struggle over the Gulf war: Iraqi aggression or American imperialism?
- Part III. Conclusion: 9. The multi-purpose arena.
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