Media Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Introduction ............................................ 1

Background ........................................ 1

Significance of the Issue ......................... 2

Problem and Research Question ..................... 3

Methodology ............................................. 6

Design and Concept ................................ 6

Selection and Collection of Data .................. 9

Analysis of Data .................................. 12

Findings ................................................ 20

Conclusion .............................................. 25

Recommendation .......................................... 25

References .............................................. 26

Three highly divisive forces at play globally in the first decade of the twenty-first century are nationalism, ethnicity, and religion. Problems associated with these forces are exacerbated where religion, ethnicity, and nationalism interact. The longer such problems simmer, the more intractable they appear to become (Kurth, 2001). One such case involves the decades-long dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East, where the Israelis and the Palestinians have been attempting to coexist (at times with more success than at other times) on the same land for centuries (Binder, 1999).

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States and in the Arab media in the Middle East. The period of the media coverage of the conflict investigated is the inclusive period from 1 August 2002 through 31 July 2003. Within these limits, American media coverage is limited to the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by CNN cable television news network, and Arab media coverage of the conflict is limited to the coverage of the conflict by Al-Jazeera through its Internet-based news service. The population of news stories for this study includes every news story presented on CNN and Al-Jazeera from August 2002 through July 2003 that made reference to Israel, Israelis, Palestine, Palestinian, or Arab in relation to a violent incident is included in the analysis. The data were collected through the application of keyword research on the English language CNN Web site and the Arabic language Al-Jazeera Web site. Applying the approach described above, 200 news stories were identified. Of these 200 news stories, 80 were presented on CNN and 120 were presented in Al-Jazeera. Resource limitations associated with time and money led to a decision to analyze a sample of the population of news stories. A cluster sampling approach was applied, in which an equal number
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