Böcker av Tamar Liebes

Can the American media be blamed for the transformation of an ideologically cohesive society into a segmented society of pleasure seekers, startups,and subcultures? This book aims to show how Israel's new television system affected the country's political culture during the 1990s.

What links the interviews with Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on British and American TV, the chase of journalists following mega-terrorists, and the new status conferred on ordinary people at war? Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts offers a timely and original discussion on the shift in war journalism in recent years.

For journalists and reporters, the allegation of hegemonic practices constitutes a most serious condemnation. However, this author shows how hegemony is an almost unwitting process which supports the status quo and establishment.