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Israeli TV ‘Out,’ al-Jazeera ‘In'
Survey paints bleak picture when it comes to Arab viewers’ trust in Israeli news coverage
By Roee Nahmias
TEL AVIV - Al-Jazeera is reporting that Palestinians were killed by IDF fire in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Channel 2, meanwhile, says the Palestinians were killed after a bomb they were building exploded.
Who do you believe?
As it turns out, for Arabs in Israel the answer is clear, after a new first-of-its-kind survey found Israeli-Arabs hold very little trust in the news coverage provided by Israeli television stations.
| When it comes to politics, Arabs prefer al-Jazeera (Photo: AP) |
According to the study, conducted by Dr. Amal Jamal of Tel Aviv University, 64.4 percent of respondents would have believed the al-Jazeera report, while a measly 4.3 percent would have put their faith in the Israeli report.
Close to 30 percent of survey respondents said al-Jazeera was the most credible news source, particularly when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq. However, when it comes to day-to-day, less political subjects such as education, business, and health, Arab-Israelis opt for local news channels, with Channel 2
picked by 11 percent as their favorite news source for those topics.
‘A serious disappointment’
One of phenomenon revealed by the survey was what Dr. Jamal called the “duality of space,” that is, the tendency to consult both Arab and Israeli media.
“Despite the popularity of Arab satellite stations, respondents still refrained from abandoning Israeli media, “ Jamal told Ynet.
“There’s a serious disappointment when it comes to Israeli media because the Arab public perceives them as not representing it, but rather, representing the establishment’s stance toward it,” he said.
On another front, the survey shows Arab-Israeli enjoy a high degree of exposure to various media sources, with close to 80 percent of them exposed to Arabic-language newspapers.
Meanwhile, according to the study the most popular daily newspaper among Israeli-Arabs is Yedioth Ahronoth (85 percent.) Notably, Yedioth is also the most widely circulated newspaper among Israelis in general.
The study included a sample of 594 respondents representative of the Arab-Israeli community, who were presented with 255 questions covering a wide variety of topics.
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