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The Media section of the Electronic Intifada (EI), offers a quick window on the latest articles added to the Role of the Media, Coverage Trends, Journalists in Danger, and EI in the Press feeds.

Role of the Media

Israel investing $1.6 million in "new media warriors"

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
24 February 2011

In early February, Israeli military spokesperson Avi Benayahu announced that more than a hundred Israeli “media warriors” are to be trained to use social media tools to disseminate Israeli propaganda to audiences around the world.
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Coverage Trends

Media agencies annex 200,000 settlers

Jonathan Cook
3 June 2009

Given their influence on world opinion and the vital importance of the settlement issue in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, can readers depend on the news agencies to provide fair coverage? The answer, sadly, is: no. Even on the most basic fact about the settlers — the number living on occupied Palestinian territory — the agencies regularly get it wrong. Jonathan Cook analyzes.

Study: Israel "retaliates" to Palestinian "provocation" in UK press

Shipra Dingare
24 February 2009

A new study by Arab Media Watch demonstrates a strong tendency in the British press to represent Israel as “retaliating” in coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The study, the first to investigate this aspect of British press coverage of the conflict, examined a period from January to June 2008. It found that when the British press represents a party as retaliating or responding in the conflict, that party is Israel 72 percent of the time. The tabloid press showed a particularly marked bias, representing Israel as retaliating in 100 percent of all representations of “retaliation.”
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Journalists in Danger

Press freedoms fall victim to Fatah, Hamas disunity

Rami Almeghari
26 July 2010

The split between the the Hamas-run Gaza wing and the Fatah-run West Bank wing of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has overshadowed every aspect of public life, including, many rights groups have documented, infringements on press freedoms and the work of journalists. Rami Almeghari reports from Gaza for The Electronic Intifada.

Journalist threatened with extradition, arrest by Mossad

Jonathan Cook
13 April 2010

An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would “remove the gloves” to track him down. Jonathan Cook reports.
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