Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Marda Dunsky

Book Overview

As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 through the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, she finds that the media omit two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231133499
• ISBN13: 9780231133494
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"