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More Bad News From Israel Paperback – 3 Aug. 2007
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- Print length488 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPluto Press
- Publication date3 Aug. 2007
- Dimensions13.49 x 3.1 x 21.49 cm
- ISBN-100745329780
- ISBN-13978-0745329789
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[The book] covers a lot of ground in a clear and readable manner and is particularly good at airing different views about the Arab-Israeli conflict. --Professor Avi Shlaim, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often dangerously superficial. Bad News from Israel is a strong contribution to scholarship and public debate. --John D.H. Downing, Director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University
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- Publisher : Pluto Press; 2nd edition (3 Aug. 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 488 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0745329780
- ISBN-13 : 978-0745329789
- Dimensions : 13.49 x 3.1 x 21.49 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 210,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 142 in Television History & Criticism
- 272 in TV Communication Studies
- 339 in Middle Eastern Politics
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Strange as the first time I knew of its existence was when someone contacted me to tell me that
All I ever did when the first Bad News from israel was published was to ridicule its findings that the BBC in particular and the media in general is biased in favour of Israel. Anyone who knows me would know that i spend half my life providing evidence that the diametrical opposite is true, and I totally dissociate myself from this book or any suggestion that I helped Professor Philo
Grounding the study in its historical context - as so little reporting on the situation does - provides a firm foundation on which to carry out an informed examination of what audiences are being fed, how they understand and interpret it and ultimately, albeit at a few degrees of remove, why the resulting skewed narratives are prolonging the suffering of millions.
Much has been said and written about Israel's sophisticated and relentless public relations machine - and rightly so - but, uniquely, this book actually sets out statistically the effect of these efforts on audiences' viewpoints using qualitative and quantitative research. Small sins of omission by journalists who just want to avoid hassle (rather than being biased either way) and so neglect to mention one side's perspective on a certain point are, in the last analysis, not telling the whole truth to the public they should serve.
The hopefulness implicit in the title of US website 'If Americans Knew' which set itself a similar task of highlighting the flaws in reporting around Israel and Palestine, is also inherent in Philo's project. Underlying both is the belief that most people are not apathetic, irrational or callous, but misguided and poorly informed. Ironic in an era of mass-media and information overload. Besides the corporate media though, any illusions we still harboured about the BBC's self-declared "impartiality" are swept away by this fascinating book - and the authors have been chastised by a senior BBC news editor for, if anything, under-estimating the extent to which the BBC is under the cosh and is failing to convey an accurate picture of the region to British people.

