The new Arab journalist : mission and identity in a time of turmoil / Lawrence Pintak.

Contents; List of Illustration; Introduction; Part I - The Media Landscape; 1. Red Lines - The Boundaries of Journalistic Freedom; 2. Satellite TV and Arab Democracy; 3. Media Politics and Corporate Feudalism; 4. Islam, Nationalism and the Media; 5. Covering Darfur - A Question of Identity; 6. Arab Journalism in Context; 7. Western Ethics, Western Arrogance; Part II - Survey Findings; 8. The Mission of Arab Journalism; 9. Journalistic Roles - Arabs, Americans and the World; 10. Arab Journalist Look at Themselves and the Competition; 11. Arab Journalists and the Arab People

Part III - Conclusion12. Border Guards of the New Arab Consciousness; Postscript - New Media, New Media Models; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the Middle East, political and societal reform, and relations between the West and the Arab World. Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Laurence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in the evolution of the Arab media. He explores how, in a diverse Arab media landscape expressing myriad opini

Includes bibliographical references and index.