Palestine Media Watch

Palestine Media Watch

Infobox website
name=Palestine Media Watch
logo=
url=http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/index.asp
commercial=No
type=Information site
language=English
owner=Unspecified
author=Unspecified

Palestine Media Watch (PMWATCH) is an organization established in October 2000 that monitors the US mainstream media's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and mobilizes against what it deems to be anti-Palestinian or pro-Israeli bias in the coverage of the conflict. The organization focuses mainly on issuing letter-writing action calls and publishing reports analyzing coverage [ [http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/aboutpmwatch.asp Commentary] on Palestine Media Watch] .

Criticism of News Coverage

The following are the types of criticism Palestine Media Watch regularly lodges against mainstream news coverage of the conflict:

* Rare mention of UN reports/findings/resolutions
* Rare mention of Human Rights reports/findings/statements
* Inconsistent and infrequent use of he terms "occupation/occupied"
* Almost exclusive use of the terms "terror/terrorist" against Palestinians
* Frequent use of the words "response/retaliation" to describe Israeli actions
* Infrequent contextualization of Palestinian actions: e.g., "Palestinians launched a mortar attack after Israelis bulldozed a row of houses" vs routine contextualization of Israeli actions: e.g., "Israelis bulldozed a row of houses after Palestinians launched a mortar attack"
* Imbalance in sourcing Palestinian officials and civilians vs. Israeli officials and civilians in favor of the Israelis
* Imbalance in depicting personal human suffering of Palestinians vs. Israelis, in favor of the Israelis

Criticism of Opinion Coverage

* Disproportionate allocation of op-ed space in favor of pro-Israel opinions.
* Wider range of acceptable and printable opinions is provided to pro-Israel writers vs pro-Palestine writers

Criticism of Editorial Coverage

* Rare mention in editorials of findings by human rights organizations
* Rare mention in editorials of United Nations resolutions/findings

References

ee also

* Palestinian Media Watch
* Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict
* American Task Force on Palestine
* American Palestine Public Affairs Forum

External links

* [http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/index.asp Official Website]
* [http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3798515 How Palestinians and Israelis make their images] by The Economist


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict — This article is part of the Arab Israeli conflict series. History Views on the conflict …   Wikipedia

  • Media of Israel — The media of Israel refers to print, broadcast and online media available in Israel. Contents 1 The press 1.1 History 1.2 Current status 2 Freedom of the press …   Wikipedia

  • Media and the Gaza War — Main article: Gaza War Media played an important part of the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. Foreign press access to Gaza has been limited since November 2008 via either Egypt or Israel. On 29 December 2008, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered that …   Wikipedia

  • Media coverage of the Iraq War — Journalist Geraldo Rivera who while with the 101st Airborne Division during war with Iraq in 2003 began to disclose an upcoming operation drawing a map in the sand for his audience. The 2003 invasion of Iraq involved unprecedented media… …   Wikipedia

  • Media Coverage of the Iraq War — The 2003 invasion of Iraq involved unprecedented media coverageFact|date=April 2008. The coverage itself became a source of controversy, as media outlets were accused of bias, reporters were casualties of both Iraqi and American gunfire, and… …   Wikipedia

  • Commentary on Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid — Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid   Cover showing the author, lef …   Wikipedia

  • Media of North Korea — The media of North Korea is one of the most strictly controlled in the world. As a result, information is tightly controlled both into and out of North Korea. The constitution provides for freedom of speech and the press; however, the government… …   Wikipedia

  • Media of Cambodia — The Cambodian media sector is vibrant and largely unregulated. This situation has led to the establishment of numerous radio, television and print media outlets. Many private sector companies have moved into the media sector, which represents a… …   Wikipedia

  • Media of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstani Media are relatively free by Central Asian standards. However, despite press freedom being enshrined in Kazakhstan s constitution, monitors report that privately owned and opposition media are routinely harassed and censored. In 2004… …   Wikipedia

  • Media of the People's Republic of China — See also: Media of Hong Kong and Media of Macau Life in the People s Republic of China Culture Politics Education Communications Public Health …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”