02267 a2200241 4500 OSt 20180116182800.0 170804b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0745324193 9780745324197 0 327.7301767 PIN 2006 Lawrence Pintak, Reflections in a Bloodshot lens America, Islam, and the War of Ideas Lawrence Pintak. [S.l.] : Pluto Press, 2006. 374 p. ; 22 cm. pb. Reflections in a Bloodshot lens Paperback. There exists today a tragic rift between Americans and the world's Muslims. Each views the other with suspicion and anger. Yet in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there was widespread sympathy for the U.S. in the great arc of Muslim nations from West Africa to Southeast Asia. This book explores what happened. It examines the disconnect that leads Americans and Muslims around the world to view the same words and images in fundamentally different ways. Partly a result of a centuries-old 'us' against 'them' dichotomy and an essential difference in worldview, the problem is exacerbated by an increasingly polarised media and by leaders on both sides who either don't understand or don't care what impact their words and policies have in the world at large. Journalist-scholar Lawrence Pintak, a former CBS News Middle East correspondent, argues that the Arab media revolution and the rise of "patriot-journalists" in the US marginalized voices of moderation, distorting perceptions on both sides of the divide with potentially disastrous results. Built on the author's extensive journalistic experience, the book is carefully grounded in contemporary academic scholarship -- including Orientalism, othering, worldview, media effects theory and framing theory, amongst others -- giving it broad appeal to policymakers, students of such fields as media studies, Middle East studies and Islamic studies, and general current affairs readers. Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745324193/chopaconline-20 Amazon customer reviews http://www.chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/azrev.pl?q=0745324193 NBS BK 327.7301767 PIN 2006 ddc 345884 345884 0 0 0 0 NLS NLS 2013-08-28 3 327.7301767 PIN NBS7106 2022-05-12 2019-11-06 2013-08-28 BK