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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 ?

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Table of Contents

IntroductionHypothesisConflict Background

Methodology TheoryFindingsAnalysis ConclusionBibliography

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“international news-making is inherently domestic, paradoxically local and above all national” (Lee, 2000: 295)

Gaza Blockade:(a) Represented differently

(b) Subject to differences:• Cultural• Ideological • Religious

Introduction: Hypothesis

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The Gaza Strip

• Territory on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea

• Borders Egypt and predominantly Israel.

• Conflict based on a land, air, and sea blockade by Israel and Egypt.

• Considered a humanitarian disaster.

Introduction: Conflict Background

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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

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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

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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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Orientalism

• Orientalism particularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power over the Orient.

• 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

• Edward Said’s notion of ‘Orientalism’ is particularly usefull.

Theory

According to Said (1978) Orientalism is a Western construct for “dominating, restructuring and having authority over the Orient.”

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Military Activity

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Balance of Articles

• Al-Jazeera English (AJE), a subsidiary of Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Arabic network – launched on the 15th of November 2006.

• First global English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East

• ‘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).

Findings:Al-Jazeera

Voices in the Ar-ticles Other

SourcesInternational Org. Rep.Israel Gov. RepHamas RepNon-Israeli Politician

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Diplomatic Activity

3rd Parties

Military Activity

Balance of Articles

The BBC • Representative for the

European Continent • One of the oldest media

outlet • solid reputation for accurate

reporting. 

The content analysis uncovered: • that the conflict is depicted

from a domestic point of view• Strong “us” character• Sharp depiction of the

conflict from the point of view of the British citizens that took part on the flotilla raid.

Findings: the BBC

Voices in the ArticlesNon-Israeli politician

Israel gov. representative

Individual cit-izens/public

Hamas rep-resentatives

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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

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Analysis

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Analysis

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

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