Sometime in the afternoon, after half a day of broadcasting that began at 2 a.m. and refused to end, Keshet 12 wrote a "special day of broadcasts" on the screen to justify their unnecessary decision yesterday to devote an open and prolonged wave to coverage of military activity in Jenin.
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On the special day of broadcasts, we gave 12 special interviews with Kati Shitrit, Amichai Shikli and Avi Benyahu, convened security officials, quoted Palestinian sources, talked about the IDF, and even tried to undermine the legitimacy of the demonstration at Ben Gurion Airport (which they themselves were directly responsible for intensifying, in the days preceding it) - the main thing is to dig into our heads. Channel 11 and Channel 14 also flowed with the banality, making it clear again and again over a boring and continuous open wave that so far the operation is progressing properly.
Special broadcast day. News 12, photo: screenshot
The only ones that kept things in proportion were Network 13, which stuck to the original schedule — even if that meant a rerun of a cooking show or a discussion about the sex life of a Buzaglo fan on "The Daily Report." The news was packaged in bulletins once an hour, and only at noon did everyone else join them.
For the course of a day, we grinded speculation and half-information on television, assessed the possibility of rocket fire, prepared for a multi-sectoral escalation, and broadcast a general mood that makes us anxious. Security warming always produces an increase in TV viewing rates. It traps Israelis in front of screens, as if we are escalation junkies who must receive a dose of special broadcasts every few days.
Coverage of the operation in Jenin, all channels
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