Saturday, May 05, 2007

Media Coverage of Lebanon War- Harvard report analysis


Wednesday, 2 May, 2007 @ 6:23 PM

Beirut & Boston- An academic report concludes Hezbollah succeeded at using the media as a weapon against Israel.

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Back at the beginning of March 2007, Honest Reporting's Backspin blog drew attention to a research paper published by Harvard University, which examined media coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War. The conclusion: Hezbollah succeeded at using the media as a weapon against Israel. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the mainstream media, having allowed themselves to be cynically manipulated by the Hezbollah propaganda machine, failed to report the findings of the Harvard study.

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