Structuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory

TitleStructuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsOren Meyers, Motti Neiger, Eyal Zandberg
JournalThe Communication Review
Volume14
Issue2
Pagination123-144
ISSN1071-4421
Abstract

In this study, the authors explore the considerations that guide media organizations when they narrate the past. To operationalize this research interest, the authors interviewed 10 senior Israeli electronic media professionals about the production processes that shape the broadcasts of electronic media on Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism. The analysis of the interviews illuminates the constructed and negotiated (rather than natural and inherent) nature of media professionalism.

URLhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10714421.2011.573437
DOI10.1080/10714421.2011.573437
Short TitleStructuring the Sacred