Description
The text discusses how Jews and Muslims are portrayed in the media, and how this often has negative consequences. The media has played a significant role in the current conflict in the Middle East, and has often portrayed Jews and Muslims in a negative light. This book aims to reveal the reasons for this, and to show that the media should be more responsible in its reporting.
This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally receive a 'bad press'. This book will try to reveal why. The media have clearly played a pro-active role in the Middle East conflict, the coverage of which is obscured by the contrasting images of Jew and Muslim in western thought.