Media and the Path to Peace (Communication, Society and Politics)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
ORGANIZATION OF THE ARGUMENT......Page 19
CHAPTER 1: Building theory......Page 22
INITIAL PRINCIPLES......Page 24
FOUR MAJOR TYPES OF INFLUENCE......Page 25
THE STATIC MODEL......Page 29
IMMEDIACY......Page 31
THE SEARCH FOR DRAMA......Page 32
SIMPLICITY......Page 34
ETHNOCENTRISM......Page 36
THE PRINCIPLE OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES......Page 37
CHANGES OVER TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE: THE DYNAMIC MODEL......Page 39
NUMBER AND INTENSITY OF CRISES......Page 44
THE POLITICS-MEDIA-POLITICS CYCLE......Page 45
DON’T THE MEDIA SOMETIMES INITIATE SUCH CYCLES?......Page 51
THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT......Page 52
THE DANGERS OF SENSATIONALISM......Page 53
SHARED MEDIA......Page 56
IN SUM......Page 57
CHAPTER 2: The initial stages of Oslo......Page 59
PROMOTING PEACE TO THE MEDIA......Page 62
POLITICS AS A SERIES OF EVENTS......Page 64
THE PROBLEMS OF SENSATIONALISM......Page 67
AN ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER STORIES......Page 72
THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA DURING TERRORIST WAVES......Page 76
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE......Page 79
INFLUENCES OF TERRORISM WAVES ON THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT......Page 85
IN SUM …......Page 89
CHAPTER 3: The Israeli media and the debate over Oslo......Page 91
THE OPPOSITION TO OSLO......Page 92
THE MEDIA AND THE RABIN ASSASSINATION......Page 100
THE ELECTIONS OF 1996......Page 106
COMPETING FRAMES OF OSLO......Page 108
ELECTION NEWS......Page 112
IN SUM …......Page 116
CHAPTER 4: The Palestinians and the Israeli media......Page 118
THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP AND THE ISRAELI PRESS......Page 120
STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL BARRIERS TO THE PALESTINIAN MESSAGE......Page 124
CHANGING IMAGES OF THE ENEMY......Page 129
NEW ENEMIES REPLACE THE OLD......Page 137
TERRORISM AND THE MEDIA FROM A HAMAS PERSPECTIVE......Page 141
The Hamas message......Page 144
LESSONS ABOUT ENEMIES IN THE NEWS MEDIA......Page 148
CHAPTER 5: The media and the Israel–Jordan peace process......Page 151
THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT IN JORDAN......Page 153
THE COVERAGE OF ISRAEL IN JORDAN......Page 155
CHANGES IN NEWS SLOTS......Page 160
THE COVERAGE OF JORDAN IN ISRAEL......Page 164
CHANGING NEWS SLOTS FOR JORDAN......Page 167
IN SUM …......Page 169
CHAPTER 6: The media and the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland......Page 172
THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT......Page 174
THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT......Page 188
IN SUM …......Page 194
CHAPTER 7: The collapse of Oslo and the return to violence......Page 196
THE MEDIA, PEACE, AND THE NETANYAHU ERA......Page 197
THE FLOW OF NEWS: WHAT WAS MISSING?......Page 199
THE ISRAELI NEWS MEDIA AND THE CAMP DAVID SUMMIT......Page 202
THE COSTS OF PEACE......Page 205
CAMP DAVID AS AN ISOLATED EVENT......Page 207
ISRAELI GENEROSITY AND PALESTINIAN INTRANSIGENCE: UNMASKING ARAFAT......Page 211
THE ISRAELI NEWS MEDIA AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND INTIFADA......Page 217
CHANGES IN NEWS SLOTS: PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE AT THE CORE......Page 220
THE SYNERGY BETWEEN JOURNALISTS, THE MILITARY, AND THE GOVERNMENT......Page 223
Ethnocentric view of death......Page 229
Conclusion......Page 234
IMPLICATIONS FOR JOURNALISTS AND POLICY MAKERS......Page 241
CHAPTER 2: THE INITIAL STAGES OF OSLO......Page 246
Content analysis of the first 250 days of Oslo......Page 249
Content analysis of Israeli editorials......Page 250
Content analysis of the Rabin assassination......Page 251
Content analysis of 1996 elections......Page 252
Content analysis of the Palestinian image in Israeli news media......Page 253
Interviews with Jordanian and Israeli journalists......Page 254
Interviews with Northern Ireland journalists and political leaders......Page 255
Content analysis of editorials in the Northern Ireland press......Page 257
CHAPTER 7: THE COLLAPSE OF OSLO AND THE RETURN TO VIOLENCE......Page 258
References......Page 261
Index......Page 269