What kind of information are Israelis getting from their press? What kind of information is missing? And how does this affect the reality on the ground?
Filmmakers Tamar Glezerman and Arianna LaPenne interview researchers and media watch dogs, and follow activists and independent journalists as they struggle to report the under reported, and shed light on the Israeli mainstream media scape.
Shot during Operation Protective Edge, summer of 2014, in Israel and the West Bank.
Additional footage from Gaza by Jehad Saftwai and Samer Badawi.
The piece premiered on +972magazine.com and received over 120,000 views in the first 48 hours on social media alone. It was featured on MSNBC.com, Mondoweiss, The Forward and others.
Coverage:
http://www.msnbc.com/road-map/watch/how-is-public-opinion-formed-in-israel–418041923556
http://972mag.com/watch-short-doc-looks-for-the-palestinians-in-israeli-elections/104334/
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/03/16/israeli-bloggers-ask-why-is-gaza-not-an-issue-in-the-upcoming-israeli-elections/
http://video.forward.com/video/Remember-Gaza
Disregarding Gaza: How Israeli elections ignored the Palestinians
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/disregarding-gaza-why-is-gaza-not-an-issue-in-the-israeli-elections/
http://www.thescottishstandard.net/politics/disregarding-gaza
http://sonderglobal.org/portfolio/disregarding-gaza/
http://kiaoragaza.net/
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=691_1426536096&comments=1
http://www.rtbf.be/video/detail_disregarding-gaza?id=2001277
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