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"As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 through the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, she finds that the media omit two key contextual elements: the significant impact that U.S. policy has had and continues to have on the trajectory of the conflict, and the way international law and consensus have addressed the key issues of Israeli settlement and annexation policies and Palestinian refugees. Dunsky explores how reports of the conflict routinely take on the contours of American policy and rarely challenge the premises of this ""Washington consensus."" She also examines the media's responses to allegations of biased coverage and gauges the effect that mainstream news reporting has on public opinion and U.S. foreign policy."

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This detailed work should be on the shopping list of all American correspondents moving to Jerusalem. -- Simon Wilson Nieman Reports [Dunsky's] writing is perceptive and her arguments insightful JEWISH BOOK WORLD Winter 2008 A comprehensive account of just how difficult it is to offer a 'fair and balanced' narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the United States-Israel relationship. -- Mark LeVine TIKKUN 4/1/09 Pens and Swords offers valuable insights into several fields and is a good read for a wide readership. -- Jorgen Jensehaugen JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH Vol 45, No 5 Marda Dunsky comprehensively documents the shortcomings of the mainstream U.S. news media in their coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Walter Rodgers The Christian Century 5/19/09

This detailed work should be on the shopping list of all American correspondents moving to Jerusalem. -- Simon Wilson, Nieman Reports [Dunsky's] writing is perceptive and her arguments insightful -- Jewish Book World A comprehensive account of just how difficult it is to offer a 'fair and balanced' narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the United States-Israel relationship. -- Mark LeVine, Tikkun Pens and Swords offers valuable insights into several fields and is a good read for a wide readership. -- Jorgen Jensehaugen, Journal of Peace Research Marda Dunsky comprehensively documents the shortcomings of the mainstream U.S. news media in their coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Walter Rodgers, The Christian Century

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Marda Dunsky is a former Arab affairs reporter for the Jerusalem Post and editor on the national/foreign desk of the Chicago Tribune. She has developed and taught a unique media literacy course on American mainstream reporting of the Arab and Muslim worlds at Northwestern University and DePaul University.

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