Images of Palestinians in US media

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Wed Sep 5 07:43:42 PDT 2001


How has Israel managed to cow the US media into shaping the language of conflict? Amy Goodman yesterday discussed how CNN gave a directive to its reporters restricting what terms they could use.

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:43:30AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> So why haven't Sabra and Shatila, or the routine bulldozing of
> houses, had a similar effect on Israel's image? Is it because the
> attentions of the image-shapers are, um, asymmetric, to use an
> economist's word?
>
> Doug

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