After the March 2021 elections, the sample editors on the TV channels looked for a blocking percentage to bury themselves under, they came to the election broadcasters last night prepared.
Not in the professional section, God forbid, but in lowering the intensity of the bragging and decisive assertions.
Meno Geva in the 12th, Camille Fuchs in the 13th and Dodi Hasid in the Khan 11th arrived more cautious than ever, and are coordinated in their abilities to repel the attempts to reduce something in the pregame of the sample results.
Oh yes, and with a cloud in the networks regarding the three-way coordination of the results to avoid past blunders.
What strengthened the feeling that the samples of the three channels are coordinated with each other is their refusal to include in the weighting the sample of channel 14.
From 20:00 they dared to talk about drama in general, even during the familiar ritual where the moderators beg for some hint and are met with refusal.
On channel 13, the banal questions were replaced this time by Hila Korah with an attempt to find out from the world of body language, "This is the stage where we try to get micro-expressions out of you."
The pollster, who already realized that his firm statements from the past two hours before the polls closed turned out to be wrong, dismissed the attempt with reluctance and in general seems like someone who wants to continue to remain a spinner in the counting rooms.
Despite the caution, all the studios enjoyed a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde style suspense plot: the Jekyll of the commentators was the high turnout, which led to cautious insinuations as giving the right-wing bloc an advantage - Mr. Hyde was played by the hidden turnout in the Arab sector, what's more critical in the sector.
Throughout the broadcast, it was explained to the average viewer how much it is worth waiting for the results of the sample, but how much it is worth not taking pink champagne out of the fridge because of the number of parties swinging on the percentage of blocking.
Basically we got the hackathon trying to solve a statistics puzzle.
On News 12, colleague Amit Segal complimented "the wise people of Israel who ignore the commentators" and explained that the high turnout led to an increase in the number of votes for the mandate, and we received an election broadcast that is similar to homework that only graduates of Bennett's Math Revolution 5 units could pass.
On Channel 13, the average viewer, who had already managed to shout his solution, discovered that Camille Fox is not enthusiastic and recommends that he learn a new and truly deterministic concept: "Differential voting percentages".
At 21:00 the channels returned to the content battles and the battle for the ratings for the sample.
While Tal Berman on "Reshet" moderated another cautious panel of commentators, on "Keshet" they pulled out "Wonderful Land".
After a fur skit about a leftist and a rightist at the ballot box, came the satire program with a tendency to the left on a transmitter with a decided mindset - the right won.
At 22:00 the headlines changed to "political drama" in favor of the right-wing bloc, and with a general sigh of relief to announce a drama.
But when the news broadcaster is careful and the artistic part shows TV courage to come out with announcements, that's the real drama.
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