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Examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. A new edition of the seminal Bad News from Israel, this book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors illustrate major differences in the way Israelis and Palestinians are represented, including how casualties are shown and the presentation of the motives and rationales of both sides.

Building on research undertaken by the Glasgow University Media Group, this new edition includes new stories of how television covered the Israeli attack on Gaza of December 2008 and January 2009, and on the Gaza flotilla in 2010. It shows the very sophisticated level of public relations now offered by Israel and how news has often reproduced this without offering an alternative perspective from the Palestinians. The impact on public opinion is explored through new audience research which greatly extends that of the first edition. It includes new findings on how the impact of even the most terrible images of war can be reduced by controlling audience beliefs about the origins of violence. With a new and updated history of the conflict, this authoritative study is an invaluable tool for journalists, students and media researchers.

Greg Philo is a Professor at Glasgow University, and Research Director of the Glasgow University Media Group. He is the author with David Miller of Market Killing (2000).

Mike Berry is Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham and, with Greg Phil, is the author of Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories (Pluto, 2006) and Bad News From Israel (Pluto, 2004).

Pluto Press, 2011.

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