The Israel-Hamas war is bringing generations and mindsets to a head in newsrooms across the West. Following the deaths of many in the region, there has been another battle over journalistic values in the contemporary age: impartiality and neutrality. A new generation is questioning the idea that journalists should remain impartial and neutral by giving all sides equal value without bias. During Black Lives Matter protests and more recently during the Israel-Gaza War, many have questioned the dangers of neutrality and how it can be used to obfuscate or platform dangerous or inaccurate opinions.
This programme wants to identify and troubleshoot issues that Western newsrooms are facing in covering the Palestine-Israel conflict with Arab (mostly Palestinian) journalists. The following issues will be debated: impartiality as a journalist strategy; power of words in covering conflicts; transfer of misunderstandings and misinformation surrounding the region into the media coverage; decontextualization of Palestine.
Guest: Jad Salfiti (Guardian, ARTE, FT)
Moderated by: Andrea Průchová Hrůzová
Moderated by: Andrea Průchová Hrůzová
Andrea Průchová Hrůzová is a sociologist of (visual) culture. She teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and researches at the Institute of Contemporary History (USD) of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She researches strategies of dehumanization and reification in the context of historical culture, media and digital public space.
