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Gaza Blockade
1. The Gaza Blockade Global News Networks: clash of civilizations or cross cultural dialogue ?Is the Gaza blockade presented differently by BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera ?
2. Tuesday, 7 December 2010 2 The Gaza Blockade Introduction Hypothesis Conflict Background Methodology Theory Findings Analysis Conclusion Bibliography Table of Contents Tuesday, 7 December 2010 The Gaza Blockade
9. Considered a humanitarian disaster.Tuesday, 7 December 2010 4 The Gaza Blockade Introduction: Conflict Background
10. Method Content Analysis carried out on Gaza Blockade articles run by Aljazeera, BBC and CNN Sample: 20 articles randomly collected from the online editions appearing in the year 2010. The articles were categorized under 5 sections. Limitations Content analysis in itself may not always be as reliable as it implies: Kimberly A. Neuendorf suggests that when human coders are used in content analysis, reliability translates to "the amount of agreement or correspondence among two or more coders." (Neuendorf, 2002) inherently reductive: some important aspects such language and writing style cannot be categorized Methodology: Quantitative Research Tuesday, 7 December 2010 5 The Gaza Blockade
11. War Journalism Associated with heroism and conflict, focuses on the emotional rather than on the rational, and satisfies news value demands. (Shinar, 2007) “Banal Journalism “ ‘A sense of we-ness and they-ness appears to run through all human societies.’( Elliott 1968: 268) Most of what passes as mainstream journalism (“banal journalism”) is constructed upon the key binary of ‘us’ and ‘them’. (Allan, 2005) Theory Tuesday, 7 December 2010 6 The Gaza Blockade { “The people handling this crisis are men. It is men who perpetrated this violence and men who organise the response.” (Allan, 2005: pp. 289) If truth is the first casualty of war…it is appropriate to say that understanding is the second. (Allan and Zelizer, 2004)
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13. It is, rather than express, a certain will or intention to understand, in some cases control, manipulate , even to incorporate what is a manifestly different world
14. Edward Said’s notion of ‘Orientalism’ is particularly usefull.Tuesday, 7 December 2010 7 The Gaza Blockade Theory According to Said (1978) Orientalism is a Western construct for “dominating, restructuring and having authority over the Orient.”
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16. First global English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East
17. ‘The ‘South’ here is not meant to be geographical. It is symbolic. It is a lifestyle because in the West, you have a lot of South as well. In Britain, you have South. In Europe, you have South. The South denotes the voiceless in general’ (Helal, 2008).Tuesday, 7 December 2010 8 The Gaza Blockade Findings:Al-Jazeera
22. Sharp depiction of the conflict from the point of view of the British citizens that took part on the flotilla raid.Tuesday, 7 December 2010 9 The Gaza Blockade Findings: the BBC
23. Tuesday, 7 December 2010 10 The Gaza Blockade Findings:CNN Military activity was the most important topic, as opposed to political Human interest stories: timeliness, personalisation, impact, conflict, and emotion The term ‘military occupation’ has never been mentioned Foreign politicians only quoted in a diplomatic context Articles tend to omit women, as expected In 2007, honestreporting.com accused CNN of giving ‘little or no reason for the blockade’ in its articles cxc
25. Analysis Tuesday, 7 December 2010 12 The Gaza Blockade A sense of "we-ness" lurks in the background in-depth, interpretative approach to political details of the GAZA Blockade. No interpretations. Short, blunt news items. Orientalism
