What Officials Say, What Media Show, and What Publics Get

Gaza, January 2009

Bibliographic Data

ID7495603
AuthorsMenahem Blondheim (0000-0001-7787-8071, corresponding author), Limor Shifman (0000-0002-2616-9491)
Year2009
Volume12
Issue3
Pages205-214
Publication date2009-08-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Communication Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1071-4421 • E-ISSN: 1547-7487
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10714420903124036
OpenAlexW2035055437
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited6

This article maps the fundamental dimensions of media coverage of contemporary war. It defines and discusses three major dimensions: Arenas of war news (the homefront, the opponent's media field, and international media); the main script used for positioning the protagonists (power, vulnerability and disaster); and the degree of correspondence between coverage sought by officials and that presented by the media. Here, the political and ideological nature of the regime is highly relevant. Using the case study of the fighting between Israel and the Hamas in the Gaza strip in 2008/2009, we demonstrate the interplay and multifaceted relations between these dimensions

Adversary · Computer security · Field (mathematics · Gaza strip · Ideology · Media coverage · Media studies · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Publics · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · History · Law

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