Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Bathsheba Ratzkoff, Sut Jhally
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Actor: Alisa Solomon, Gila Svirsky, Karen Pfeifer, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Robert JensenDirector: Bathsheba Ratzkoff, Sut Jhally
Primary Contributor: Seth Ackerman
Primary Contributor: Mjr. Stav Adivi
Primary Contributor: Rabbi Arik Ascherman
Primary Contributor: Hanan Ashrawi
Primary Contributor: Noam Chomsky
Primary Contributor: Robert Fisk
Primary Contributor: Neve Gordon
Primary Contributor: Toufic Haddad
Primary Contributor: Sam Husseini
Primary Contributor: Hussein Ibish
DVD: Region Code 1
Published: 2004
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DVD Review: The U.S. Media Serves Who?
Summary: 5 Stars
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land is a film every American needs to be made aware of and viewed. The film is that important. To the naive it will have a high WOW factor. To the more worldly it will confirm suspicions. While viewing the film it occurred to me that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has a uncanny parallel to what the United States did to native Americans in the 19th and 20th century. The film exposes how the U.S. and Israeli governments brilliantly and systematically manipulates the U.S. media to sanitize the images and information that reaches the American public. If you can control the information and images the public has access to, you can shape and control to a certain extent what they think. There lies the danger of a cabal gaining control of the nation news and information gathering and disseminating apparatus. Can you say Rupert Murdoch boys and girls? The news media should be the fifth column for the public not the propaganda mouthpiece for the powerful and the rich. British journalist Robert Fisk politely put the failure of the U.S. media this way "the relationship between American journalist particularly television journalists and the centers of power has become incestuous."
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Description of Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one. The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics. Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky.Bestsellers in DVD
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