Tairah Firdous

Al Jazeera English: an Alternative News Voice: Presenting a Non Western Perspective and Ending Western Media Hegemony Tairah Firdous

Media coverage of international conflicts has always captivated students of communication, and the Israel-Palestine conflict is one among many such international conflicts that has attracted substantial academic research. Several scholars have conducted studies of this conflict and how it has been framed in different media outlets all around the world. This study adds to the existing research about media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict by investigating whether Al Jazeera English presented a non-Western viewpoint during the crisis. The study uses a content analysis to examine CNN?s and Al Jazeera English?s news coverage of the Gaza crisis (December28-Jan.19, 2009), and the results indicate that there are indeed differences in how the two networks framed the Gaza Crisis.