Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics

Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics

Few topics in the news are more hotly contested than the Israeli-Palestinian conflictâ€”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 bylinesâ€”as fixers, photojournalists, camerapeople, reporters, and producersâ€”to provide the news that Americans read, see, and hear every day.
Ultimately, this book demonstrates how Palestinians play integral roles in producing U.S. news and how U.S. journalism in turn shapes Palestinian politics. U.S. objectivity is in Palestinian journalists' hands, and Palestinian self-determination cannot be fully understood without attention to the journalist standing off to the side, quietly taking notes. Back Stories examines news stories big and smallâ€”Yassir Arafat's funeral, female suicide bombers, protests against the separation barrier, an all-but-unnoticed killing of a mentally disabled manâ€”to investigate urgent questions about objectivity, violence, the state, and the production of knowledge in today's news. This book reaches beyond the headlines into the lives of Palestinians during the second intifada to give readers a new vantage point on both Palestinians and journalism.
Country USA
Manufacturer Stanford University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-01-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-01-09
Format	Kindle eBook

Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics

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