Background
Dor, Daniel was born on February 17, 1963 in Jerusalem, Israel.
( In the three years that have passed since Operation Def...)
In the three years that have passed since Operation Defensive Shield – three years marked by denial, deceit, rage and resentment – one fact remains uncontroversial: never, until the operation, had there been such a wide breach between the Israeli collective consciousness and international public opinion. Israeli scholar Daniel Dor measures this gap and concludes that Israeli society has withdrawn into an unprecedented sense of isolation and victimization – largely because of the role played by the Israeli media. Different media outlets provided their readers and viewers with significantly different perspectives on the operation, but they all shared a certain emotional attitude, not vis-à-vis the operation itself, but in relations to the global discourse of blame against Israel: they all projected an urgent, desperate, almost obsessive urge to suppress, to dismiss, to fend off guilt. Dor shows how analysing this type of reporting as an attempt to manufacture consent with the government and the military fails to capture its essential nature. He argues that, at its core, the coverage proposed alternatives for the construction of an Israeli identity. During the operation, all the different media converged around one assertion: being Israeli at this point in time feels like being accused by the entire world of something we are not guilty of. Basing his arguments on detailed analyses of media reports, Dor explores how the Israeli media work within the context of the global media and world opinion, rather than within the classic context of the nation-state -- and what it means for the future of the country.
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( In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporti...)
In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporting during the escalation of the second Intifada in the fall of 2000, Daniel Dor shows how real events are subject to distortion and manipulation by the media. In an analysis of the heart of Israel’s media establishment―the newspapers Yediot Ahronot, Ma’ariv, and Ha’aretz―he finds a wide gap between the reality reported by field reporters and the eventual newspaper accounts framed by editors. Led by beliefs, opinions, and emotional responses rather than the facts provided by their reporters, these editors created a platform on which a new and fearful narrative for Israeli–Palestinian relations was built. Yet while Dor demonstrates that the media construct the news rather than simply report it, his sophisticated analysis also shows that no one entity or person is responsible. Rather than a supreme authority, Dor argues, it is the influence of fear, anger, ignorance, and a desire to please and sell newspapers that threatens the freedom of the press in a liberal democracy.
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Dor, Daniel was born on February 17, 1963 in Jerusalem, Israel.
Master of Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, Stanford University, California, 1996.
Senior lecturer Tel Aviv University, since 1998.
( In the three years that have passed since Operation Def...)
( In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporti...)
Chairman board Keslev Center Protection Democracy in Israel, Jerusalem, since 2006.
Married Lia Nirgad, May 26, 1962. Children: Gabi, Talia, Daniella.