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New book: Al-Jazeera and US War Coverage - Dr. Tal Samuel-Azran

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Wed, 7 Jul 2010 03:13:49 -0700

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NEW BOOK from Peter Lang:
 

Al-Jazeera and US War  Coverage 
http://www.amazon.com/Al-Jazeera-War-Coverage-Tal-Samuel-Azran/dp/1433108658
(Peter Lang, 2010)
Dr. Tal Samuel-Azran

Since the eve of the war in Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera has become a global 
household name and a news source that cannot be ignored. Globalization theorists 

argue that Al-Jazeera promotes a cross-cultural debate, enforcing a 
counter-hegemonic perspective on the West not evident in former crises. Through 
a comprehensive empirical analysis covering the re-broadcasting of Al-Jazeeras 
images on major U.S. television networks since 9/11, this book draws an 
alternative picture, revealing that the advent of Al-Jazeera has actually eroded 

the counter-hegemonic debate in U.S. war reporting. It shows how the U.S. 
government persuaded television networks to systematically reformat legitimate 
war images from Al-Jazeera, labeling it a deviant network, in order to eliminate 

criticism of the war. Moreover, an examination of the U.S. reception by bloggers 

and network carriers of Al-Jazeeras English-language website and channel reveals 

the U.S. administrations continued resolve and ability to limit public 
discourse. 

 
 
*Praise*


Samuel-Azran's book provides a timely and necessary contribution to wider 
debates about, and the theorization of, contemporary global news flows and how 
new regional news players either help to pluralize and democratize the 
traditional Western dominance of news and contribute to an emergent global news 
sphere or, alternatively, become effectively co-opted and politically neutered 
when ‘re-presented’ within and through the Western news prism…Going against the 
grain of much current thinking in the field of international and global media 
scholarship, Samuel-Azran argues that the spectacular rise of Al-Jazeera should 
not be simply taken as evidence for an emergent and democratizing global public 
sphere - 
Professor Simon Cottle, Deputy Head of Media and Communications School and 
Director of the Mediatized Conflict Research Group in the Cardiff School of 
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC).
 
Ever since its launch over a decade ago, Al-Jazeera has influenced broadcast 
journalism globally and transformed the Arab television news sphere.
Its coverage of wars and conflicts in the region has earned the pan-Arabic news 
network many admirers and a few powerful adversaries, as Tal Samuel-Azran’s book 

ably demonstrates This is an empirically strong contribution to the literature 
on the politics of global news.” —
Daya Thussu, Professor of International 
Communication, University of Westminster, London; Editor, Global Media and 
Comunication, Sage
 
A link to an article reviewing the book on Al-Jazeera Arabic:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B051046-4BAF-4D77-B8EB-9A2A809FA6CD.htm

 
About the Author
Tal Samuel-Azran is a lecturer in the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the 

Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlia, Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in media and 
communications from the University of Melbourne and has published widely on 
Al-Jazeera and media globalization. He has also served as a reporter for several 

Israeli journals and newspapers. He recently co-edited the book New Media and 
Innovative Technologies (2008). 


      

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