Israel’s open society enables more news coverage than its closed neighbors

Evidence

Not only is there greater curiosity about Jews and their opponents; there is also far greater opportunity to satisfy that curiosity. The fact that Israel is a democracy and to a very considerable extent an open society makes it possible to produce the news to satisfy the curiosity, to give the customers what they want, which is after all an important principle of free enterprise business, whether dealing in news or other commodities. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1639

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how openness to media coverage distorts perceived oppressive-state rankings — the ‘police state’ effect.