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The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the Middle East, political and societal reform, and relations between the West and the Arab World. Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in the evolution of the Arab media. He explores how, in a diverse Arab media landscape expressing myriad opinions, journalists are still under siege as governments fight a rear-guard action to manage the message. This innovative book breaks through the stereotypes about Arab journalists to reveal the fascinating and complex reality -- and what it means for the rest of us.
RECENT PUBLICITY AND COVERAGE
CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/29/pintak.arab.media/index.html
CNN’s Reliable Sources: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/cnn-reliable-sources-video/id163366376
Minnesota Public Radio “Midmorning”: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/02/02/midmorning2/
Equal Time for Free Thought, WBAI NY: http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/category/show/
NW Public Radio (Commentary): http://nwpr.org/News.aspx
KXLY Spokane: http://www.kxly.com/news/26757078/detail.html
The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/feb/01/new-arab-journalists/
"Crowd-sourcing Tunisia: Separating Electronic Rumor from Reality," The Seattle Times (Jan. 21, 2011)
Q&A on Arab Journalism, Columbia Journalism School/Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (Jan. 31, 2011)
The Charlie Luke Show, KSL Salt Lake City (Saturday, 2nd hour) http://pandora.bonnint.net/audio/charlieluke.rss
The Agenda, TV Ontario http://bit.ly/hMkye3 and the show’s YouTube channel http://is.gd/hQOpplMORE COVERAGE Listening Post, Al Jazeera English KOMO Newsradio, Seattle CNN Newsroom BBC World (also used on BBC America newscast)
Lawrence Pintak is Founding Dean of the Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University and publisher/co-editor of the online journal Arab Media and Society. Previously Director of the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at The American University in Cairo, and a former CBS News Middle East correspondent in the 80s and 90s, who covered the Iran-Iraq War, Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the birth of suicide bombing, and overthrow of President Suharto (latter for ABC News and The San Francisco Chronicle), his books include Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas (2006).
Introduction: A Matter of Perspective * Red Lines -Boundaries of Journalistic Freedom * Satellite TV and Arab Democracy * Media Politics and Corporate Feudalism * Islam, Nationalism and the Media * Covering Darfur - A Question of Identity * Arab Journalism in Context * Western Ethics, Western Arrogance * The Mission of Arab Journalism * Journalistic Roles - Arabs, Americans and the World * Arab Journalists Look at Themselves and the Competition * Arab Journalists and the Arab People * Border Guards of the New Arab Consciousness * New Media, New Media Models * Acknowledgments * Endnotes
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