Bad News from Israel.

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Bad news from Israel.

Philo, Greg and Mike Berry

For the cartoonist, see Mike Berry (cartoonist). Not to be confused with 1960s singer Dave Berry.

See also Prof Sir Michael Berry, the physicist.

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Pluto Press Pluto Press is a progressive, independent publisher based in London. It was founded in 1969 by Richard Kuper and others as an arm of International Socialism, the forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party in the UK.

2004

315 pages

$19.95

Paperback

DS119

Based on research conducted by the Glasgow U. Media Group (UK), this report reviews and analyzes news coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an ongoing dispute between the State of Israel and Arab Palestinians. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is part of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict. both in terms of content and in terms of its influences on audience reception in the US, Britain, and Germany. In terms of their content analysis, television news coverage of the conflict typically tends to a disproportionate dis·pro·por·tion·ate
adj.
Out of proportion, as in size, shape, or amount.

dispro·por emphasis on Israeli deaths and casualties and a pattern of highlighting and sometimes endorsing Israeli perspectives. The relative egregiousness e·gre·gious
adj.
Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant.

[From Latin of such practice is found to influence audience reception, but not in a uniform way. The authors of the study also consider the structural processes that cause imbalance in coverage of the conflict. Distributed in the US by the U. of Michigan Press.

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