| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Series |
Library of Modern Middle East Studies |
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Library of modern Middle East studies.
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| Contents |
List of Illustration; Introduction; Part I -- The Media Landscape; 1. Red Lines -- The Boundaries of Journalistic Freedom; 2. Satellite TV and Arab Democracy; 3. Media Politics and Corporate Feudalism; 4. Islam, Nationalism and the Media; 5. Covering Darfur -- A Question of Identity; 6. Arab Journalism in Context; 7. Western Ethics, Western Arrogance; Part II -- Survey Findings; 8. The Mission of Arab Journalism; 9. Journalistic Roles -- Arabs, Americans and the World; 10. Arab Journalist Look at Themselves and the Competition; 11. Arab Journalists and the Arab People |
| Summary |
The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the Middle East, political and societal reform, and relations between the West and the Arab World. Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Laurence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in the evolution of the Arab media. He explores how, in a diverse Arab media landscape expressing myriad opini |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Journalism -- Political aspects -- Arab countries
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Journalism -- Objectivity -- Arab countries
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Journalists, Arab.
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Middle Eastern history.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Journalism -- Objectivity
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Journalism -- Political aspects
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Journalists, Arab
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Arab countries
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Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857719126 |
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0857719122 |
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9780857730084 |
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0857730088 |
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