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Media Representation of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict Term Paper
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Subject:Government
Topic:Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Document Type:Term Paper
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Media Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Media's Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
Is it an Objective Representation?
Bias in the General Media
Rules of Unbiased Coverage (According to the BBC)
How Rules are Broken by Domestic Media (why is the NY Times pro-Israel?)
How Rules are Broken by the International Media
-example of biased coverage by the BBC (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/may/03/israel.broadcasting)
Bias in the Media Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Brief Background of the Conflict
Is Media Biased?
-example of biased coverage
End Introduction with Thesis Statement to Prove Biased Coverage
The way that the United States media, and sometimes the international media, portray the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is biased, depending on whom the specific newspaper is addressing.
(Here you may also want to address the fact that the conflict is so complex, that it is really hard to be objective without having proof or a specific issue which can be researched on the ground. Main Idea: Due to the complexity of the conflict, it is really hard to appear objective)
II. Media Coverage of the Israeli Side
i. Newspapers covering the Israeli side of the conflict and ways in which this is handled
ii. Types of bias found in media outlets and description for each type of bias:
a. Use of emotion
b. Omission of information
c. Selective reporting
d. Key placement of biased facts and/or errors
III. Media Coverage of the Palestinian Side
i. Does the media handle the Palestinian side of the coverage the same way? (not in the United States; for example, Al-Jazeera TV was blocked on many cable providers; U.S. tends to be pro-Israeli which may be due to the DC lobbies or the NY predominance of pro-Israeli ideas, two cities which often lead the country)
ii. Is there more or less information about Palestine in the media domestically and internationally when compared…
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