The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy

San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/4 h x 6 1/4w. A real nice clean unmarked 287 page first edition hardcover with "1" present in number line. Since its founding, Israel has generally prevailed in wars with its Arab neighbors, but recently a new front has been opened in this long struggle, a front where rifles, helicopters and missiles are of little use. Here a war of words and images is fought for world opinion rather than military objectives. And Israel has been out-flanked on this new battlefield by the nimbler and more effective Palestinians. To understand why Israel is losing the media war, Stephanie Gutmann, who lived in the Middle East as a teenager, returned to Jerusalem and the war zones of the West Bank to observe up-close the modern news-gathering processes, which often resemble a digital bazaar where freelance photographers, camera crews and journalists offer their most dramatic stories and footage to the highest bidder..