Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage
of the crisis in Palestine,
zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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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–
work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.