Back Stories U. S. News Production and Palestinian Politics

Name: Back Stories U. S. News Production and Palestinian Politics
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ISBN: 9780804781411

ISBN-10: 0804781419

ISBN-13: 9780804781411

Edition: 2012

Authors: Amahl A. Bishara

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Few topics in the news are more hotly contested than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and news coverage itself is always a subject of debate. But rarely do these debates incorporate an on-the-ground perspective of what and who newsmaking entails. Studying how journalists work in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Nablus, and on the tense roads that connect these cities, Amahl Bishara demonstrates how the production of U.S. news about Palestinians depends on multifaceted collaborations, typically invisible to Western readers. She focuses on the work that Palestinian journalists do behind the scenes and below the bylines—as fixers, photojournalists, camerapeople, reporters, and producers—to…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 12/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on Transliteration


Introduction


Does a Checkpoint Have Two Sides?



Balanced Objectivity and Accumulated Authorship


Words That Fly in the Air



Arming State Speech, Constraining Journalists' Work


An Innocent Evening Out? Representing Cultural Life and Resistance



Working from Home: Disinterest and the Scope of the Political


A Reliable Source? Prison Bars as Sound Barrier



The Embodied and Up-Close Work of Journalism


Locating the Foreign Correspondent at a Demonstration



The Separation Wall as Stage for Refugee Identities


Parsing "Chaos"



Watching U.S. Television from the Palestinian Street


A Discerning Representation of More Than "Two Sides"


Conclusion. Framing Graffiti: Voice, Materiality, and Violence


Notes


Works Cited


Index