Palestine Media Watch
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Available in | English |
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Founded | 2000 |
Commercial | No |
Current status | inactive |
Palestine Media Watch (PMWATCH) was an organization established in October 2000 that monitored the U.S. mainstream media's coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and mobilized against what it deemed to be anti-Palestinian or pro-Israel bias in the coverage of the conflict. The organization focused mainly on issuing letter-writing action calls and publishing reports analyzing coverage. According to the group's founder, Ahmed Bouzid, "There's a paradigm we're trying to change: that Israelis are defending themselves and the Palestinians are attacking, and when the Israelis do something it must be a mistake or an act of self-defense."[1] The organization's website has not been active since about 2009. The organization was the subject of a PhD dissertation by Robert Lyle Handley from the University of Texas, Austin, titled, "Palestine Media Watch and the U.S. News Media: Strategies for Change and Resistance."[2]
See also
- Palestinian Media Watch
- Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict
- American Task Force on Palestine
- American Palestine Public Affairs Forum
- Pallywood
References
- ^ Joann Loviglio (September 19, 2002). "Media-watchers occupy both sides of Israeli-Palestinian conflict". AP Worldstream. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
- ^ Robert Lyle Handley (May 1, 2010). "Palestine Media Watch and the U.S. News Media: Strategies for Change and Resistance" (PDF). The University of Texas, Austin.
External links
- Palestine Media Watch and the U.S. News Media: Strategies for Change and Resistance by Robert Lyle Handley, PhD Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, May 2010
- How Palestinians and Israelis make their images by The Economist
- Caught in the Crossfire by American Journalism Review
- Palestinians Find Their Voice Online by Online Journalism Review
- Palestinian Activism Spammed by The Nation
- Claim: U.S. Papers Downplay Palestinian Deaths by Editor & Publisher