Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: How hegemony works 2 Bedfellows: The evolution of a committed relationship over time 3 Foregrounding conflict: Broadcasting conflict and national integration - the Israeli context 4 Internalizing censorship: How journalists reconcile freedom of expression with national loyalty and responsibility 5 Constructing success: How framing may be an instrument for pacifying a watchdog press 6 Us and them: Israeli and US coverage of the intifada and the Gulf War 7 Dominant readings and doomed resistance: A case study of one family's attempts to decode oppositionally 8 Socializing to dominant reading: How hawks and doves cope with conflict news and why the hawks find it easier 9 Reading upside down and inside out: How Israeli Arabs maneuver between the easy dominant and oppositional readings 10 Lying low - silent witnesses from the field: How Israeli soldiers reconcile the enemy with the images they brought with them 11 Them as us - Palestinians on Israeli cinema: How Israeli film-makers fail to transform television framing of the Palestinian 12 I and thou: How live broadcasts of Middle-East peace ceremonies wear out their welcome; Notes; Bibliography; Index