Media Coverage of Gaza Offers Little Answers
Posted on August 23, 2005
Have you seen The News Is What We Make Of It ? This claymation short describes the schockingly narrow media landscape. Throughout the last week of the Gaza disengagement, the media has been focusing on the middle east but MediaChannel.org questions if we learned anything at all from mainstream media sources.
Danny Schechter explains that despite the plethora of stories relating to the events in Israel and the Gaza, very little in depth information was offered and very few questions were answered. One thing we witnessed this past week is that "We learned that the TV media can still cover events outside the United States not just affecting Americans, with some depth and for more than a sound bite, even when Michael Jackson or Madonna are not around."
Read Schecter's article "The Media Coverage of Gaza: Many Questions, Few Answers"
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