Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Cases
- 2 The Impact of National Security on the Development of Media Systems
- 3 Italianization (or Mediterraneanization) of the Polish Media System?
- 4 Culture as a Guide in Theoretical Explorations of Baltic Media
- 5 On Models and Margins
- 6 Africanizing Three Models of Media and Politics
- 7 The Russian Media Model in the Context of Post-Soviet Dynamics
- 8 Understanding China's Media System in a World Historical Context
- Part II Methods and Approaches
- References
- Index
2 - The Impact of National Security on the Development of Media Systems
The Case of Israel
from Part I - Cases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Cases
- 2 The Impact of National Security on the Development of Media Systems
- 3 Italianization (or Mediterraneanization) of the Polish Media System?
- 4 Culture as a Guide in Theoretical Explorations of Baltic Media
- 5 On Models and Margins
- 6 Africanizing Three Models of Media and Politics
- 7 The Russian Media Model in the Context of Post-Soviet Dynamics
- 8 Understanding China's Media System in a World Historical Context
- Part II Methods and Approaches
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
“Media systems are shaped by the wider context of political history, structure, and the culture” (Hallin and Mancini, 2004b: 46). Indeed, anyone who wishes to understand the structure of Israel's media institutions today must adopt a broad historical perspective, covering almost ninety years. This journey begins with the formation of a Jewish political entity in Palestine under British Mandatory rule in the aftermath of World War I.
Jewish journalism in Eretz Yisrael (as the Jews referred to Palestine), and before that in Central and Eastern Europe where the Zionist movement sprang up at the turn of the nineteenth century, was forged primarily as a wing of this Jewish national liberation movement. A good portion of its leadership – including the Zionist movement's founder Theodore Herzl and other founding fathers like Ze'ev Vladimir Zabotinsky – were themselves journalists or people of letters, who used the press as a vehicle to realize the collective objectives of the movement: revitalizing the Hebrew language and building a national homeland for the Jews.
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- Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World , pp. 11 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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