[eccr] New book - Bad News From Israel - Greg Philo and Mike Berry

>PRESS RELEASE
>
>BAD NEWS FROM ISRAEL
>Greg Philo and Mike Berry (Glasgow University Media Group)
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>³This superb study ... is extensive in scope, and scrupulously fair. It 
>will be a landmark.²
>Edward S. Herman, co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent
>
>³Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often dangerously 
>superficial. Bad News from Israel is a strong contribution to scholarship 
>and public debate.²
>John D.H. Downing Director, Global Media Research Center, Southern 
>Illinois University
>
>³[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.²
>Professor Avi Shlaim, St. Antony¹s College, University of Oxford
>
>³Just about everything that we know about Israel/Palestine comes to us 
>from our television screens. Bad News from Israel reveals remarkable 
>levels of ignorance about what and why things are as they are. What¹s 
>more, the analysis offered here strongly suggests that the media are 
>intimately linked to the perpetuation of this unhappy situation.²
>Professor Frank Webster City University, London
>
>
>Based on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media 
>Group, this authoritative book examines media coverage of the current 
>conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion.
>For the first time, the books brings together senior journalists and 
>ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how 
>public belief and opinion have been shaped by media reporting.
>In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors focus on 
>television news. They illustrate  major differences in the way Israelis 
>and Palestinians are represented, including how casualties are shown and 
>the presentation of the motives and rationales of both sides. They combine 
>this with an extensive audience study involving hundreds of participants 
>from the USA, Britain and Germany. It shows extraordinary differences in 
>levels of knowledge and understanding, especially amongst young people 
>from these countries.
>The book explores the processes that shape the news. It looks at patterns 
>of ownership and at how public relations, information control and the 
>close political links between the USA and Britain affect what we see and 
>hear in the media.
>The authors set the study in context by providing a history of the present 
>crisis from the period of the British mandate in Palestine through to the 
>Oslo and Wye Accords and the intifadas.
>
>Greg Philo is Professor at Glasgow University, and has been the head of 
>the Glasgow Media Group for over 25 years. His current research interests 
>include ESRC and other externally-funded research projects on political 
>advertising, images of health and illness, migration and Rrace¹, as well 
>as risk and food scares. He is the author of numerous publications 
>including, with David Miller,  Market Killing (Longman, 2000).
>
>
>Pluto Press is delighted to invite you to the launch of the explosive new book
>Bad News from Israel
>
>by Greg Philo and Mike Berry
>Special guest speakers:
>John Pilger and Tim Llewellyn
>
>Join us for drinks and speeches at the NUJ HQ
>Tuesday 22nd June 2004, 6.45pm, speakers 7.15pm
>
>Headland House, 308 - 312 Gray¹s Inn Road, London, WC1
>Tube: King¹s Cross
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>
>
>Publication date: 22nd June 2004
>
>Contact Hester Rice
>Tel: 020 8374 6424
>(hester /at/ plutobooks.com)
>www.plutobooks.com
>
>There are limited press copies available!
>Please put your requests in NOW!
>
>Please send tearsheets of finished reviews.
>
>£10.99 paperback
>07453 2061 9
>304pp
>215 x 135mm
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