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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656078.html
Absentee Journalism
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Hebrew Jewish society (as opposed to the state) is almost completely missing from the Israeli Arab press. Thus, for example, the mouthpiece of the Balad party has a column called "Israeli affairs," as if it were a column devoted to foreign news. The affairs of the State of Israel hardly appear at all in the mouthpiece of the Islamic movement, Sawt al-Haq wal-Hurriya. It seems the underlying assumption of the newspaper editors and of a large portion of the Arab public is that an effort to recognize the other must come only from one side: from the Jews to the Arabs, and not vice versa. Thus, Arab cultural isolation is perceived as an edict of fate, which the Arabs can do nothing to oppose. Arab media and society cannot wash their hands clean when they demand that Jewish society not only recognize them, but also get to know them.