The special day of broadcasts on the occasion of the day of the celebration of disruption was accompanied by elaborate promos, with the division divided into two types of disruption: Israeli and American. Coverage of routine violations by Israeli citizens was replaced by a shift to "Finger in the American Eye Day," which included disrupting Netanyahu's mood during a festive broadcast of Herzog's visit to the White House.
Let's start with the second half of the disruption day: Disruption Day was celebrated with a president arriving before Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House, and when Channel 13 News called it the "Presidents' Meeting," the work of disrupting the prime minister's status succeeded. Even the scoop provided by National Security Council head Tzachi Hanegbi on the rival channel that Netanyahu was officially invited in September failed to spoil the damage to that "Netanyahu is a league above all" campaign.
Protest in front of the embassy in Tel Aviv, photo: Reuters
In contrast, the rolling day of broadcasts covering the demonstration looked more like a televised accident to the protest.
Since the beginning of the day, quite a few events have been disrupted that directly affected the coverage, I say have had an impact, but I mean that we have seen television here that we have not seen here since the outbreak of the protest: panelists from Brothers in Arms are attacked on channels that have turned them into stars, doctors whose arguments are dying in their hands, and commentators on Channel 12 News who are fighting the protest symbol Ehud Barak. Waiting for the current affairs programs were a few pins stuck in the disruption balloon: Already on Keshet's morning show, Niv Raskin officially heard from MK Hili Trooper that the Benny Gantz Force was disavowing its refusal. Photos of the reservists who tied themselves to the Kirya gate were accompanied by a headline announcing that IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy also opposes refusal.
The day of disruption of the plans continued with the sad news of a demonstrator who went down alone to block roads and was severely injured, and the feeling that perhaps the roadblocks were going one step too far. Throughout the broadcast breakouts, the feeling was that the quantities had decreased, the angle of the shot was lowered to waist height so as not to expose the baldness, but the broadcast days were predetermined, and how much can you let the panelists fight in the studios? Channel 13 switched to dramatic broadcast break-ins from colorful adult captions on the sidewalk next to the attorney general's house, and Channel 14 was horrified by an inscription in which the word "shame" was spray-painted on the rabbinical building.
Protest in front of the Rabbinate, photo: Limor Agmon
That was the day when even doctors' opinions were often disrupted, representatives of the doctors' protest sat on panels but found it difficult to link the grounds of likelihood to real harm to public health. Prof. Idit Matot raised a few eyebrows in Studio 12 when she declared, "Eliminating the reasonableness grounds means so, [the minister] can guide me, instruct us as a public not to deal with a certain gender."
Check at Binyamina train station // Credit: Shani Tamim
The protest regained its energies with train disruptions and stressful brake stops, and Channel 14 recorded a disruptive incident in the popular series where "the big democrats interrupt a peaceful periodic reporter." For the first time on screen, the reporter experiences a physical assault near the railroad tracks, and then a historical spectacle emerges: a field reporter who comes from home (or from the Patriots studio) with a loyal Scout assistant who protected him with their bodies.
But the climax came thanks to another Ehud Barki event in the studio of Channel 12 News. Commentator Yaron Avraham revealed in the edition that it is permissible to disrupt anything except the conditions of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's event. Even an astonishing order to the head of the Shin Bet and the head of the Mossad to refuse an order and a reasonable response from Avraham, "You say something super-dangerous and you have responsibility," were met for the second time this month when Barak remarked to journalists, "You don't have the right to comment to me, the agreement with the editor is that you don't disturb the guest."
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