Our war/their war: Comparing the<i>intifadeh</i>and the gulf war on U.S. and Israeli television

Liebes, Tamar

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“…The role of history in journalism reporting has further been addressed in relation to how journalists cover news events (Edy 1999;Houchin Winfield et al 2002;Lang and Lang 1989;Robinson 2006;Edy and Daradanova 2006;Ryan 2004). Thus, what have not been examined thus far are the mechanisms behind media managers' organizational decision-making during large-scale unexpected news events -for example, how do media managers decide upon 'disaster marathons' (Liebes 1992(Liebes , 1998Liebes and Blondheim 2002) and how do they restructure their organizations to meet the challenges posed by such a decision? The present article argues that in order to answer questions concerning how media managers draw upon previous experiences in their decision-making, and to build up more systematic knowledge about organizational preparedness in the media, there is a need for clear definitions that distinguish this very special category of news from everyday reporting.…”

Section: What Made the Events Similar To One Another In The Minds Of mentioning

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Defining Crisis News Events

Olsson

2010

Nordicom Review

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Research on news organizations' handling of 'what-a-story's proposes that journalists find routines for handling these events based on their previous experiences of similar situations. Still, conceptual discussions on how to define extraordinary events or 'what-a-story's have thus far attracted limited interest. In response, the present article proposes a definition of 'what-a-story's in order to provide an understanding of what events become a part of news organizations' historical case banks. Accordingly, the aim of the article is to present a definition of crisis news events from an organizational perspective, which can help distinguish critical news events of importance to news organizations' learning and preparedness. The article argues that crisis news are to be understood as surprise events that challenge key organizational values and demand a swift response. Based on interviews with Swedish broadcasting media managers, the article illustrates how the September 11 th terror attacks can be defined as a crisis event.

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Section: What Made the Events Similar To One Another In The Minds Of mentioning

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Defining Crisis News Events

Olsson

2010

Nordicom Review

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“…Following the beginning of the first Intifada in December 1987, news media adjusted their focus to the IsraeliÁPalestinian conflict (Lederman, 1992). Some research has suggested that the press recast Palestinians as David against an Israeli Goliath (Liebes, 1992;Palmer, 1997;Zaharna, 1997), whereas other research suggests that the media imposed a ''cycle of violence'' narrative onto the conflict (Collins and Clark, 1992;Roeh and Cohen, 1992). Subsequent research shows that the news media continued to place most of the blame for the Intifada on the Palestinians (Noakes and Wilkins, 2002;Wu et al, 2002).…”

Section: Us News Media: Israeli Response To Arab/palestinian Violencementioning

confidence: 92%

“…Event-driven news focuses on terrorism, minimizing the occupation's role as a central cause of the conflict, attributing blame to the Palestinians (Ackerman, 2001;Dunsky, 2008;First, 2002;Philo and Berry, 2004). Instead of a story of an occupied people resisting an occupier, the news often represents Jews and Muslims in conflict because of religious differences*fueled by the Palestinians (Ismail, 2008;Korn, 2004;Liebes, 1992;Ross, 2003). Western correspondents live inside Israel and report from within the state, not the occupied territories (Elseewi, 1998;Wolfsfeld, 1997b).…”

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The Conflicting Israeli-Terrorist Image

Handley¹

2009

Journalism Practice

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“…Framing analysis is akin to ethnographic content analysis, and is used to understand the meanings that are embedded in news stories. Just as ethnographic content analysis emphasizes the role of investigators in uncovering the themes of news stories and allows qualitative categories to emerge from the data (Altheide 1987), framing analysis uncovers the manifest and latent meanings of news coverage (Entman 1993), such as in reports on international conflicts (Gamson 1981, Liebes andTarg 1991). Gamson (1981) proposes that every issue or conflict has a frame, and suggests that a 'frame' is a package that is composed of 'framing and reasoning devices' (p. 80) of which there are eight types: metaphors, exemplars, catchphrases, depictions, visual images, roots, consequences, and appeals to principle (pp.…”

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Social construction of reality. The tobacco issue

Siu

2009

Critical Public Health

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Informed by the theory of the social construction of reality, this paper examines media framing of the tobacco issue in the United States over time. A comparative analysis reveals that both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal defined the situation in the same manner -that smoking was associated with cancer and other illnesses, and that smokers should assume responsibility for smoking. However, although the New York Times coverage became less supportive of the tobacco industry over time, the Wall Street Journal supported the tobacco industry both over the 1964 Surgeon General's report and during the 1998 Minnesota trial. This suggests that ideology may play a role in the framing of reality.The tobacco issue has long been controversial in the United States. Over the years, the tobacco industry has fought an uphill battle with the government and the public sector over the reality of the link between smoking and cancer. The definition of the tobacco issue has changed over time. In 1964, a report by the Surgeon General stated that there was a strong association between smoking and cancer, yet the tobacco industry claimed that there was no conclusive evidence of this association. The 1964 report was a landmark event in evidence-based medicine in its causal inference of the harmful effects of smoking. In 1998, the reality at dispute in a Minnesota trial was whether the tobacco industry had committed fraud by withholding research results on the harmful effects of smoking. This paper attempts to determine whether there is a difference in the media frames of newspapers with different ideologies in their coverage of the tobacco issue. The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are used to examine whether ideology makes a difference to news coverage, 1 whether the ideology of a newspaper affects its reporting on the issue of smoking and health, and whether newspaper coverage of the tobacco issue changed over time. Background and aims

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Our war/their war: Comparing theintifadehand the gulf war on U.S. and Israeli television

Cited by 63 publications

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Defining Crisis News Events

Defining Crisis News Events

The Conflicting Israeli-Terrorist Image

Social construction of reality. The tobacco issue

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