Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land


Peace, Propaganda amp the Promised Land is a 2004 documentary by Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff whichaccording to the films official websiteprovides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and which analyzes and explains howthrough the use of language, framing and contextthe Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media. The film argues that the influence of proIsrael media watchdog groups, such as CAMERA and Honest Reporting, has led to distorted and proIsrael media reports. It features Noam Chomsky, Robert Jensen, Hanan Ashrawi, Sam Husseini, and Robert Fisk, among others.



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