BBC & Al Jazeera Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Violence

Keywords: Ethnicity, race & national identity, religion & belief, UK, Middle East & North Africa, English, study, conflict, media ethics & diversity, print, TV, online, media

The BBC and Al Jazeera are two of the world’s biggest broadcasters. Arab Media Watch monitored how their respective English-language websites reported acts of violence between Israelis and Palestinians for four months, from 1 February to 31 May 2009.

AMW analysed the prominence of each side’s viewpoint and version of events by monitoring how many words were devoted to quoting and paraphrasing Israeli and Palestinian sources, and in what order they were reported. AMW also analysed the prevalence with which each side is portrayed as instigating or responding to violence.

www.arabmediawatch.com

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