Arabs not represented in the Israeli media

An interesting piece that I picked up from Newswatch India,especially as I am doing a presentation in the middle of next month on the Middle East in two of our modules.

A study by the Israeli Centre for Strategic Communication has revealed that despite making up a fifth of the population of Israel,Arabs count for little in the media.

Says the report http://www.newswatch.in/news-analyses/newsworthiness/9461.html

Arab presence on television channels has gone down ironically. Arab presence decreased by 33 per cent - from 3 per cent to 2 per cent. The representation of Arabs in radio stations also has failed to cross the 1 per cent mark.

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The qualitative aspect of representation is suffering as much as the quantitative part. Chances are rare that one will find an Arab news presenter or, on the eve of elections, an Arab statistician on a Hebrew news channel. Arab experts rarely appear in the media and there is not even one Arab commentator.