Abstract
This chapter offers a comparative analysis of mainstream Israeli news coverage of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s 2014 incursion into the Gaza Strip. The comparative analysis focuses on evidential standards. The chapter finds that the studied news coverage exhibits inconsistent evidential standards across the two arenas, shifting as a function of political affinity. It also theorizes how evidential standards are shaped in society via communicative processes. Finally, it integrates its finding of inconsistent evidential standards in Israeli news coverage, with the proposed theorization. Doing so, it suggests that evidential standards in Israeli society are set primarily by social power, at least so far as questions of war and peace are concerned.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 17-32 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040051511 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032557052 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2024 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences