Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The Case of Palestinian Journalists

Schwalbe, Cecil R.; Relly, Jeannine E.; Cruikshank, Sally Ann; Schwalbe, Ethan H.

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2018.1543555

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“…However, powerful political pressures and weak professional structures soon led journalists to fall back into clientelist obedience to their political masters (El Issawi 2016, 181-82). In their study of Palestinian journalism, Schwalbe et al conclude that intersecting pressures, among them clientelism and violently enforced parallelism, have created "an untenable environment" for many journalists (Schwalbe et al 2018(Schwalbe et al , 1933.…”

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Journalism Under Instrumentalized Political Parallelism

Selvik

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2021

Journalism Studies

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Media systems where political parallelism co-exists with political clientelism have contradictory influences on journalistic practices. Journalists are encouraged to actively defend a cause and influence public opinion while expected to remain subservient to their political masters. The media studies literature has analyzed the impact of political parallelism and clientelism separately, without reflecting on the tensions that emerge when they operate together. The article examines journalism under instrumentalized political parallelism and argues that it plays out in a field defined by both horizontal and vertical conflicts. We add an elite-grassroots analytical perspective to the inter-elite tensions associated with a polarized public sphere. Political parallelism in non-democratic contexts seemingly leaves little room for journalistic agency, as the politically powerful tend to instrumentalize media outlets. However, by looking closely at the case of Lebanon, we argue that journalists are still able to act independently of and contrary to the elite's intentions. The empirical analysis shows how journalists navigate vis-à-vis the politicians by playing the relations game, exploiting internal contradictions in the system and connecting with popular grievances. The article contributes new knowledge about journalists' resilience to instrumentalization in a context of media/ politics connections that is commonly found outside the West.

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Section: Partisan Interventionist Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Journalism Under Instrumentalized Political Parallelism

Selvik

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2021

Journalism Studies

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Interactions between Journalists Located in Different Sides of a Conflict: A Comparative Study of Two Conflict Zones

Gonen

Hoxha

2019

Journalism Studies

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2020

Journal of Palestine Studies

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This bibliography lists articles and reviews of books relevant to Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the quarter 16 November–16 February 2020. Entries are classified under the following headings: Palestine in Global and Comparative Perspectives; Palestine and the Palestinians; Literature and the Arts; Middle East and the Arab World; Israel and Zionism; and Recent Theses and Dissertations.

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Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The Case of Palestinian Journalists

Abstract: Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The Case of Palestinian Journalists 7 This exploratory study introduces a human security framework to examine the challenges 8 that journalists face from daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when 9

Cited by 3 publications

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Journalism Under Instrumentalized Political Parallelism

Journalism Under Instrumentalized Political Parallelism

Interactions between Journalists Located in Different Sides of a Conflict: A Comparative Study of Two Conflict Zones

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