{"id":1888,"date":"2006-11-04T20:28:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/04\/to-convey-a-coherent-convincing-compelling-imagemedia-message\/"},"modified":"2006-11-04T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T18:28:39","slug":"to-convey-a-coherent-convincing-compelling-imagemedia-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/04\/to-convey-a-coherent-convincing-compelling-imagemedia-message\/","title":{"rendered":"To Convey a Coherent, Convincing, Compelling Image\/Media Message&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1162378315401&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Hasbara: Lights, Camera, Combat,  by Haviv Rettig <\/strong><\/a>     (Jerusalem Post)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Few complaints held against recent Israeli governments have so completely attained the lofty status of &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221; as those directed at Israel&#8217;s image-makers and -explainers. The many critics of hasbara claim that, while the importance of &#8220;getting the message out&#8221; has become paramount (in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and low-intensity combat generally), the IDF and state bureaucracies have failed miserably in conveying a coherent and convincing message to the world.<\/p>\n<p>A conference on the use of media as a factor in strategic decision-making and as a player in the theater of war and diplomacy, held this week outside Jerusalem, provided a glimpse into the chaos that pervades Israel&#8217;s official hasbara. At the closed-door academic conference, in which former generals, government spokesmen, experts, officials and a few of the country&#8217;s most senior past and current strategists could openly air their concerns, a recurring complaint among those in attendance centered on the lack of an agency that could coordinate the message being delivered by the state&#8217;s various spokesmen. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>The BIGGEST failure of the Israeli government message is, and has been the failure to convey to the world a unified, consistent, coherent, compelling, historically and factually correct message which strings together a group of intelligent, grammatically correct English sentences.   MB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbara: Lights, Camera, Combat, by Haviv Rettig (Jerusalem Post) Excerpts; Few complaints held against recent Israeli governments have so completely attained the lofty status of &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221; as those directed at Israel&#8217;s image-makers and -explainers. The many critics of hasbara claim that, while the importance of &#8220;getting the message out&#8221; has become paramount (in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}