Different Media Coverage of Israel-Palestine Conflict

Different Media Coverage of Israel-Palestine Conflict

The movie "Wag the Dog " is supposedly a fictitious film about a group of publicity managers who fabricate a war in an unknown country in the Middle East and then work their publicity magic in to create the persona of a president in charge . The movie was a highly comical yet engrossing look at how mass media easily manipulates the public into believing what they want the public to believe . What is highly disturbing is that the movie , made by Hollywood for the entertainment of the

masses , is actually based on reality . This reality is deeply embedded in the Israel - Palestine conflict that has been raging on for as far back as I can remember

Politics is a very dirty and secretive game . The government and its supporters will utilize anything and everything in to achieve their endgame . The public is the unwitting spawn in this power struggle and the controlling method of choice is the mass media . The manipulation happens so high up in the government power hierarchy that even the media no longer realizes that their supposedly independent and free thinking job of keeping the public informed is a well thought out and planned outcome of Washington 's needs

Media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict is considered an important tool in understanding the source of their bad blood relationship . The media reports that are seen worldwide are an influential source both political and social support for both nations This is the reality that is presented to the world and it is the basis for the creation of a strong public opinion either in support of or against the goings on between the two countries

In the opinion column of Sonia Nettnin that she entitled "U .S . Media Coverage of Israel-Palestine Conflict , she informed her readers about the reality of who really controls the US Media when it comes to the coverage of the Israel - Palestine conflict

Few Americans realize that U .S . mainstream media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict passes through America 's political elites Israeli public relations organizations and private American organizations , before it reaches the public

In other words , we get the sanitized version of the reports . Nothing we see on the nightly news , or hear on the radio reports , even what we read in the newss , can be taken to be the unabridged truth of the goings on in that part of the world . She invites her readers to watch the film " Peace , Propaganda and the Promised Land : U .S . Media and the Israel - Palestine Conflict " in to realize how much our media is censored without realizing it . Nettnin specifically wants the viewers to understand how the director of the film , Sut Jhally

Examines how these filters distort the realities on the ground . It demonstrates how

through word choice , limited historical context and one-sided perspectives , U .S . journalists provide the American public with limited news coverage

The media 's misinformation campaign is actually a public relations...