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Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
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'Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land' is a 2004 documentary by Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff whichaccording to the film's official website"provides 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".[http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/PeacePropaganda Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land] by the Media Education Foundation (Official website)[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428959/ "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004)"], at IMDb The film argues that the influence of pro-Israel media watchdog groups, such as CAMERA and Honest Reporting, has led to distorted and pro-Israel media reports.[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604775898578139565&q=Peace%2C+Propaganda+%26+the+Promised+Land Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land] on Google Video It features Noam Chomsky, Robert Jensen, Hanan Ashrawi, Sam Husseini, and Robert Fisk, among others.
In its response to the movie, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of San Francisco, a Jewish communal advocacy organization, criticized the film for not discussing the influence of "the numerous proPalestinian media watchdog groups, including FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, which describes itself as 'A National Media Watch Group'), whose spokesperson played a prominent role in the film".
A review in 'The New York Times' by Ned Martel found that the film "largely ignores Palestinian leadership, which has surely played a part in the conflict's broken vows and broken hearts. And such a lack of dispassion weakens the one-sided film's bold and detailed argument".Ned Martel, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071209083255/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/295440/Peace-Propaganda-The-Promised-Land-American-Media-The-Subversion-of-Peace/overview "Eager to Place the Blame for a Never-Ending Conflict" (review)], 'The New York Times', January 28, 2005.
See also
; The media
* Media coverage of the ArabIsraeli conflict
* Media bias
* Propaganda
* Spin
* Hasbara
; The conflict
* ArabIsraeli conflict
* IsraeliPalestinian conflict
* Second Intifada
References
Category:2004 films
Category:Documentary films about politics
Category:Documentary films about the media
Category:Documentary films about the IsraeliPalestinian conflict
Category:American documentary films
Category:2004 documentary films
Category:2000s American films
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