ANTI-ARAB AND ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS: How They Reported the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah and Israeli-Hamas Wars; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: Review of Research; Chapter Two: Methodology and Instruments; Chapter Three: Findings; Chapter Four: Discussion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This research compares the New York Times news coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006 (July War) and the Israeli-Gaza conflict of 2006 (Operation Summer Rain) with war coverage as reported by the Chicago Tribune and theWashington Times, . Using Herman and Chomsky?s (1988) Propaganda Model and Edward Said?s (1994) notion of Orientalism, this research investigates the range of permitted opinion and the representations of Arabs and Muslims in news articles