Days of awe: The praxis of news coverage during national crisis
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Motti Neiger
Abstract
The case study aims to reveal the praxis that serves the media during ethnic-violence conflicts. The article closely reads reports of the Israeli media covering the clashes between Israeli Arabs and the police, in the first days of the second Intifada (September 28–October 9, 2000). We analyze how mainstream Hebrew media (television news stations and newspapers) covered the unfolding events, and also refer to reports in Arab-language newspapers. Two prominent trends shaped the frame through which events were reported: Inclusion and exclusion. Israel's Hebrew-language media excluded the Arab citizens from the general Israeli public, while, at the same time, equating them with the residents of the Palestinian Authority. That is, the media framed the Arab Israeli citizens as Palestinians, blurring the line between the riots within Israel and the armed violence in the West Bank and Gaza. This coverage changed after the first and most intense days of riots; Israeli journalists then switched to a more civil framing after establishing an inner as well as an outer discourse (mainly in concurrence with the politicians).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Framing-effects approach: A theoretical and methodological critique
- Days of awe: The praxis of news coverage during national crisis
- Supercrips versus the pitiful handicapped: Reception of disabling images by disabled audience members
- Social.networks@work: Case studies into the importance of computer-supported social networks in a mobile phone company
- Exploring newspapers' portrayals: A logic for interpretive content analysis
- The motivation of journalists within local newspapers
- Book Reviews
- Contributors
- Contents volume 29 (2004)
