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Peace, propaganda & the promised land [videorecording] : U.S. media & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Media Education Foundation ; directors, Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff ; producer, Bathsheba Ratzkoff ; writers, Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff

Additional Titles
Peace, propaganda and the promised land, U.S. media & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and United States media and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Published
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators
Jhally, Sut, Ratzkoff, Bathsheba, Alper, Loretta, and Media Education Foundation

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Contents
Disc 1. Introduction -- American media: occupied territory -- Hidden occupation -- Invisible colonization -- Violence in a vacuum -- Defining who is newsworthy -- Myth of U.S. neutrality -- Myth of the generous offer -- Marginalized voices -- Is peace possible? and Disc 2. Additional interviews -- Independent short films. The matrix of control : on the ground realities -- Birth at the checkpoint -- The poetry of listening : Middle Eastern stories -- Other voices from Israel Palestine -- Bethlehem diaries -- Jenin spring : April 14-17 2002 -- Jenin spring : April 20 2002 -- A la muqata's -- Jerusalem day 2002 -- Jewish voice for peace -- Occupation diary : ta'ayush in souther Hebron -- Occupation diary : ta'ayush in Sulfit -- Futbol Palestina 2006 (trailer) -- Salt of the earth : Palestinian Christians in the northern West Bank : The wall, Exile & Life (selection, in production).
Summary
Exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites -- working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies -- exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, this documentary provides a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion. The first DVD of this set includes the 80 minute feature, 151 minutes of additional interviews, and 64 minutes of news clips. The second DVD includes 66 minutes of interviews, 260 minutes of short films by independent filmmakers and activists, maps, and a PDF document of links to 400 organizations and websites for further research.
Features interviews with Noam Chomsky, Hanan Ashwari, Robert Fish, Rabbi Michael Lerner and Rabbi Arik Ascherman, and others.
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ISBN
1893521931
Related Titles
Matrix of control
Birth at the checkpoint
Poetry of listening
Other voices from Israel Palestine
Bethlehem diaries
Jenin spring : April 14-17 2002
Jenin spring : April 20 2002
La muqata's.
Jerusalem Day 2002
Jewish voice for peace
Occupation diary
Creation/Production Credits Note
Camera, Kelly Garner ; editors, Bathsheba Ratzkoff, Kenyon King.
Participant/Performer Note
Narrator: Loretta Alper.
Technical Details
DVD.
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