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The Dying Journalism and the State of the Nation

Rebirth – the next chapter
By Bambi Sheleg  |  26/11/2009
The Hebrew press played a major role in the historic rebirth of the Jewish nation. The decline of the Israeli press in recent years is not the result only of technological or commercial changes. It is an expression of a change in thinking among the leading elements of Israeli society, including the media, who look to t...

Israeliness - That Isn't Us
By Gadi Taub  |  26/11/2009
One can hardly miss the spirit of derision - of Israelis, their aspirations, their hopes, and their fears - that blows in the pages of the Haaretz newspaper. Gadi Taub thinks that, as distinct from the old elite and its intelligentsia, that based its consciousness on service, that is, bearing the burden of building the...

Your Free Internet is in Danger
By Micha Odenheimer  |  26/11/2009
Rich Media, Poor Democracy, the pioneering book by Professor Robert McChesney, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, describes in great detail the hyper-commercialization of the media, which he claims has reached disastrous proportions for American and global democracy. McChesney believes that the attac...

Suspended in Mid-Air
By Hagar Lahav  |  26/11/2009
Postmodern thought borrowed the central principle around which it has coalesced over the past 150 years from journalism – the principal of an objective, monolithic "truth," that is exposed or discovered by many, but is created and exists beyond mankind. At present, with the rug pulled out from under us, journ...

Green Self-Censorship
By Laurent Cohen  |  26/11/2009
After the politically correct era in the European press, now an "Islamically correct" wave is spreading throughout the French, English, and Dutch media. We are witnessing signs of self-censorship that ensue from the guilt feelings of the enlightened press and media, which believe that the charge of "Isla...

Neither free nor professional
By Nazir Majali  |  26/11/2009
Nazir Majali thinks that the situation of journalism in the Arab world has improved, although at a rather slow pace. On the other hand, the Arab press in Israel, which has many more opportunities, is actually in a state of regression. A look at the crisis of the Arab press, which is intensifying the identity crisis of ...

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