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Abstract
This article maps the fundamental dimensions of media coverage of contemporary war. It defines and discusses three major dimensions: Arenas of war news (the homefront, the opponent's media field, and international media); the main script used for positioning the protagonists (power, vulnerability and disaster); and the degree of correspondence between coverage sought by officials and that presented by the media. Here, the political and ideological nature of the regime is highly relevant. Using the case study of the fighting between Israel and the Hamas in the Gaza strip in 2008/2009, we demonstrate the interplay and multifaceted relations between these dimensions.
Notes
1. Tal Fabel points out that on Hamas webpages, directed mainly to the Arab world, aspects of the disaster script started creeping in as fighting progressed. This latter positioning did not necessarily work against the former; after all, exposing the disaster could serve to boost the fighting power of combatants, by having the portrayal of Israeli cruelty justify the costly resistance http://www.middleeast-internet-monitor.com/.
