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On Deadline,
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SAMUEL WEINREB

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

Battle Lines: The American me-
dia and the Intifada, by Jim Led-
eramn. New York: Henry Holt &
Co. The Israeli government, pub-
lic and news media are in the
midst of a fierce debate as to the
nature and limits of press cen-
sorship in a country still under
fire, if not siege.
With the august Ha'aretz uni-
laterally pulling out of the tra-
ditional agreement with the
military censor (whereby the
newspapers don't go to court but
rather a higher tribunal in case
of disagreement with the censor),
the Knesset has now set up a
panel to rewrite the censorship
rules.
All players involved would do
well to read this book. Jim Led-
eramn, the longest-serving active
foreign correspondent in Israel
(since 1966), has written an inci-
sive study of contemporary jour-
nalism, using the intifada as the
most representative example of
what is wrong with modern-day
news gathering and dissemina-
tion.
Mr. Lederman's book is far
from an impressionistic analysis.
Rather, it is based on tapes of 800
nightly news casts of the three
American networks, 2,000 dis-
patches from t he associate Press
and 1,500 reports from the New
York times, the Washington Post
and the Los Angeles Times —
plus another 1,000 articles from
t he Israeli press for comparative
purposes. No unsubstantiated
generalizations here; Mr. Leder-
man cites chapter and verse, day
and hour, length of report and ar-
ticle.
The problems are legion. Re-
porters must produce something

on a short dead-line, with little
time for thought, research and in-
depth analysis; "paratroop jour-
nalists" sent over by the head
office to cover major breaking sto-
ries, without even a rudimenta-
ry understanding of the country's
history, not to mention language;
editors back in the United States
who are more attuned to making
the story attractive from a human
interest perspective than in
telling it like it really is; camera
crews dispatched to get pictures
without an accompanying re-
porter (there's a foreign corre-
spondent per network or paper,
but camera crews can be hired lo-
cally), thus placing the visual
above the substantive content
without proper context. And so
on.
But Mr. Lederman's criticism
of the media is mild compared to
his attitude toward the Israel au-
thorities and the PLO. With the
outbreak of the intifada, the Is-
raeli government reacted by clos-