Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict

How Hegemony Works

Tamar Liebes

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English

Routledge
13 February 1997

Media studies; Business ethics; Press & journalism

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

For journalists and reporters, the allegation of hegemonic practices constitute a most serious condemnation. It supposes that the media is working in the interest of the political establishment to create a false counsciousness.

However, starting with Raymond Williams's refined definition of hegemony, Tamar Liebes shows how hegemony is an almost unwitting process which supports the status quo and the establishment. Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict illustrates how this 'soft hegemony' is manifest in the everyday workings

of the media, and all the more so, when the media are on one side of a serious conflict. Considering the reporting of the Israel-Arab conflict and the 1991 Gulf War, Liebes demonstrates how national journalism supports the dominant ideology. This unintentional assimilation is the result of shared values, the inaccessibility of the other side, the preference

for celebrating success rather than exposing failure, and a

wish to be popular with the public. It shows how journalists abandon their watch-dog role, however unintentionally, to support 'our side', especially in time of war. This book demonstrates how readers and viewers are implicated in this process by virtue of their expectations and their inability

to decode the press critically. Illustrations are provided of how conflict may be otherwise depicted, for example by artists and front-line participants, as well as how media literate readers can learn to read between the lines.

By: Tamar Liebes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780415154659
ISBN 10: 0415154650
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 13 February 1997
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tamar Liebes