Fifty years in a 'marriage of convenience': news media and military censorship in Israel

摘要

One of the characteristics of democratic regimes is the absence of censorship and other prepublication control over the content of the news media. Although the state of Israel is considered to be a democratic state, military Censorship has been in operation since the nation's Establishment in 1948. The central question discussed In this article is: What are the circumstances and Processes that began and preserve this anomalous Situation, one that has no direct equivalent in any other Democratic society? An examination of the reciprocal Relations in Israel between the political establishment, With military censorship as its method of media control, And the media, finds that it is not a one-way Relationship but a kind of marriage, not a marriage of Love, but one of convenience.