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Article: Covering the Intifada--How the Media Reported the Palestinian Uprising.(book)(Book Review)
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- Middle East Quarterly
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- January 1, 2005
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Covering the Intifada--How the Media Reported the Palestinian Uprising. By Joshua Muravchik. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003.125 pp. $19.95, paper.
Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, was commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy to analyze one of the Arab-Israeli conflict's most important dimensions--the battle for public opinion via the media. The author does a fine but limited job of analyzing the media's integral role on the "battlefield," for he focuses mainly on the media image that the Israelis can directly affect. On those media aspects controlled by others, ...