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The Media and National Security: The Performance of the Israeli Press in the Eyes of the Israeli Public

The above quotes underline the inexorable clash between the two inherently adversarial disciplines—that of the media and that of the military. This intrinsic dissonance is especially acute in times of national crisis, when, as Marvin Kalb wrote, in the wake of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks on the United States, the press faces a ‘monstrously difficult challenge: how to be sensitive to the feelings of a . . . patriotic nation while doing their job of applying proper doses of journalistic skepticism’. In many ways the disharmonious relationship between those who would expose information and events in the name of ‘liberty’, and those who resist such exposure in the name of ‘security’, is a product of modern technology. For, as Kalb points out, ‘up until the discovery of the telegraph in 1843, the military could safely accommodate journalists, even on the battle-field, because press dispatches were so slow in getting into print that there was little chance of providing comfort to the enemy or embarrassment to the generals—or the politicians’. However, in the modern era much has changed and the speed of media dispatches and the span of their reach have dramatically transformed the potential impact the press may have on events and processes that impinge on national security. Over the latter part of twentieth century there has